Advice on importing existing VM's into brand new Proxmox installation

leenux_tux

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Mar 21, 2013
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Hello Forum,

I'm fairly new to Proxmox, have only being using it for 12 months or so and have only been experimenting with it in a home office/educational environment.

Initially I had the OS installed to two mirrored USB sticks which were mounted directly on the Motherboard (Supermicro). Unfortunately, after a power outage I lost the OS. I have re-installed ProxMox to a couple of SSD's now (ZFS RAID1) and want to, if possible.

  • Import local VM's
  • Import VM's that are on ZFS over ISCSI from a FreeNAS box.
  • Import VM's that are based on a NFS share from a FreeNAS box.

I have mounted up the local disk and can see the folders where the VM's are located, however, the files are not being listed in the Proxmox "Storage View" dialogue.

Also, I have mounted up the NFS share and the ZFS over ISCSI block device but cannot "see" any files via the Storage View.

I have searched around and only ever seem to find advice on importing a VM from another virtualization product (VMWare for example) using things like Clonezilla. Any advice/pointers would be greatly appreciated.