Adding existing / migrated disks

[dannyboy1121]

Hi,

I'm currently backing up raw disk images from another system to a storage array. I want to use these disk images for DR purposes (this not production use so no pressure). My idea is to re-present them up to the Proxmox host and then recreate the VMs using the copied disk images.

Is it possible to create a VM using an existing disk image rather than creating a new one?

Many thanks.

 

[sdinet]

yes. Are you using local or shared storage for your VMs? All you need to do is copy the .raw disk image into the vm's storage directory, like /etc/pve/qemu-server/images/102/disk.raw.