Boot IMG

[deanfourie]

Can someone please help me boot a raw IMG file.

I'm trying to run Volumio and it only offers a IMG file.

Would appreciate it as I'm been fighting with I for a few days now.

Thanks

 

[nunner]

Hi,

you can try converting the file with qemu-img convert to a qcow2 file:

qemu-img convert -O qcow2 file.img file.qcow2

and then import that to your VM using qm importdisk:

qm importdisk <vmid> file.qcow2 <storage>

…the import might also just work with the raw file, but I haven't tested it

 

[deanfourie]

Thanks I'm trying this now,

What would <storage> be?

Thanks

 

[deanfourie]

Importing the RAW file works.

But the disk is not bootable?

I chose the RAW disk image as the disk format and used SATA as the device.

 

[nunner]

Please post your VM config: qm config <vmid>. Which image did you choose on the website?

 

[deanfourie]

Sure, see below.

I chose the PC x86_64 version.

Thanks

root@vm:~# qm config 103
boot: order=scsi0;ide2;net0
cores: 4
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 2048
meta: creation-qemu=7.1.0,ctime=1675769481
name: Volumio
net0: virtio=62:82:CB:C7:E3:1E,bridge=vmbr1,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsi0: local:103/vm-103-disk-0.raw,iothread=1,size=16G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=d0342591-e159-4307-a9dd-e36a35c4e7cf
sockets: 1
vmgenid: d923db17-5b65-45ed-a3f6-6769b7e3bd12
root@vm:~#

 

[nunner]

But the disk is not bootable?

Could you post the specific error you're encountering? Do you maybe need to boot it via UEFI?

 

[deanfourie]

Possibly.

There's no real error just doesn't find bootable media on the HDD.

 

[deanfourie]

I did read somewhere that someone managed to get it working by stripping the image of UEFI.

How can I test boot it in UEFI.

Sorry pretty new to proxmox, I take it it is in the system options somewhere when setting up the VM.

 

[nunner]

You can switch the "BIOS" setting in the Hardware tab to OVMF and need to add an EFI disk (which is also possible through the GUI). The process is documented here [1].

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_bios_and_uefi

 

[deanfourie]

Ok, i've tried to enable UEFI. I've setup a new machine as per the photos below but I get the following error on boot.

 

[deanfourie]

Ok I got it booting from the media now, However I receive this error.

Any ideas?

 

[Whooptie]

hey, i'm trying the same thing.
any luck yet?

 

[9acca9]

how you pass after the "Start PXE over IPV4"?
im there..........