Cannot remove image, a guest with VMID 'xxx' exists!

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Arbru

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Dear sirs,

A moved vm disk (vm-122-disk-0) that is no longer in use is still present in one of my storage pools and I can't delete it. It's not in the VM configuration file:

# cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/122.conf
agent: 1
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 3
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 16384
name: nofdcbvmmar00
net0: virtio=D6:CE:48:AA:55:82,bridge=vmbr1,tag=4021
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
scsi0: storage_nvme:vm-122-disk-1,cache=writethrough,size=380G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=d554ac92-e277-49bc-9aec-7cfd0aeec360
sockets: 2
startup: order=1
===

# pvesm list storage_nvme
storage_nvme:vm-122-disk-0 raw 408021893120 122
storage_nvme:vm-122-disk-1 raw 408021893120 122
storage_nvme:vm-135-disk-0 raw 214748364800 135
===

How can I delete it, as Proxmox refuses to do so, as it says the VM exists.

Cheers,

Alvaro
 
dcsapak said:
do
Code: 
qm rescan --vmid ID

then the disk should show up as 'unused' in the hardware tab of that vm
there you can delete it
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Hi Dominik,

Thanks for the prompt answer, but it didn't work.

I tried with the VM operational and shutdown, but no difference whatsoever. :(

No snapshots attached either:

Code: 
# qm listsnapshot 122
current              no-parent            You are here!

Any other ideas?
 
Last edited:
what is the output of
Code: 
qm rescan
qm config ID
?
 
Hi Dominik,

Code: 
root@nofdcbprox02:~# qm rescan
rescan volumes...
VM 133: add unreferenced volume 'storage01_vm:vm-133-disk-0' as 'unused0' to config.

It corrected another VM (lol), but not for VM 122.

Code: 
root@nofdcbprox02:~# qm config 122
agent: 1
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 3
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 16384
name: nofdcbvmmar00
net0: virtio=D6:CE:48:AA:55:82,bridge=vmbr1,tag=4021
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
scsi0: storage_nvme:vm-122-disk-1,cache=writethrough,size=380G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=d554ac92-e277-49bc-9aec-7cfd0aeec360
sockets: 2
startup: order=1

Disks on the storage:
Code: 
root@nofdcbprox02:~# pvesm list storage_nvme
storage_nvme:vm-122-disk-0   raw 408021893120 122
storage_nvme:vm-122-disk-1   raw 408021893120 122
storage_nvme:vm-135-disk-0   raw 214748364800 135
 
Please post the output of `pveversion -v`
 
Dominik,

Your command worked like a charm. Solved!

Code: 
root@nofdcbprox00:~# pvesm list storage_nvme
storage_nvme:vm-122-disk-1   raw 408021893120 122
storage_nvme:vm-135-disk-0   raw 214748364800 135

Stoiko,

Code: 
root@nofdcbprox00:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 5.4-1 (running kernel: 4.15.18-9-pve)
pve-manager: 5.4-3 (running version: 5.4-3/0a6eaa62)
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.3-3
pve-kernel-4.15.18-12-pve: 4.15.18-35
pve-kernel-4.15.18-9-pve: 4.15.18-30
pve-kernel-4.15.18-4-pve: 4.15.18-23
pve-kernel-4.15.18-1-pve: 4.15.18-19
pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve: 4.15.17-9
ceph: 12.2.11-pve1
corosync: 2.4.4-pve1
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-2
libpve-access-control: 5.1-8
libpve-apiclient-perl: 2.0-5
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-50
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-20
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-13
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-41
libqb0: 1.0.3-1~bpo9
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve6
lxc-pve: 3.1.0-3
lxcfs: 3.0.3-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.0.0-3
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 1.0-25
pve-cluster: 5.0-36
pve-container: 2.0-37
pve-docs: 5.4-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 1.20190312-1
pve-firewall: 3.0-19
pve-firmware: 2.0-6
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-9
pve-i18n: 1.1-4
pve-libspice-server1: 0.14.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.12.1-3
pve-xtermjs: 3.12.0-1
qemu-server: 5.0-50
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
spiceterm: 3.0-5
vncterm: 1.5-3
zfsutils-linux: 0.7.13-pve1~bpo2

I'm not currently using the latest version because I had to downgrade as requested on another ticket open with Arwin investigating re-transmits in one of corosync rings.
 
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dcsapak said:
mhm... weird

in any case you should be able to remove it on the cli directly with

Code: 
pvesm free volumeid

where volumeid is the storage:volume string, e.g. storage_nvme:vm-YYY-disk-Z
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HI,

volumes were not visible in the hardware tab of the VM, only in cli, but the proposed solution worked. THNX.

Code: 
root@pm-3:~# pvesm list local-zfs
Volid                              Format  Type              Size VMID
local-zfs:vm-103-disk-0            raw     images    536870912000 103
local-zfs:vm-103-state-old raw     images     22011707392 103

root@pm-c3:~# pvesm free local-zfs:vm-103-state-old raw
Removed volume 'local-zfs:vm-103-state-old raw'

proxmox version

Code: 
pveversion --v
proxmox-ve: 6.1-2 (running kernel: 5.3.13-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.1-5 (running version: 6.1-5/9bf06119)
pve-kernel-5.3: 6.1-1
pve-kernel-helper: 6.1-1
pve-kernel-5.0: 6.0-11
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.4-9
pve-kernel-5.3.13-1-pve: 5.3.13-1
pve-kernel-5.3.10-1-pve: 5.3.10-1
pve-kernel-5.0.21-5-pve: 5.0.21-10
pve-kernel-4.15.18-21-pve: 4.15.18-48
pve-kernel-4.15.18-17-pve: 4.15.18-43
pve-kernel-4.15.18-12-pve: 4.15.18-36
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.0.2-pve4
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: 0.8.35+pve1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.13-pve1
libpve-access-control: 6.0-5
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-2
libpve-common-perl: 6.0-9
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-storage-perl: 6.1-3
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve3
lxc-pve: 3.2.1-1
lxcfs: 3.0.3-pve60
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.1-1
pve-cluster: 6.1-2
pve-container: 3.0-15
pve-docs: 6.1-3
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20191127-1
pve-firewall: 4.0-9
pve-firmware: 3.0-4
pve-ha-manager: 3.0-8
pve-i18n: 2.0-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 4.1.1-2
pve-xtermjs: 3.13.2-1
qemu-server: 6.1-4
smartmontools: 7.0-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.2-pve2
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Hey guys
Not such great with Linux have this problem here where guest doesn't want to remove please help try to read this post as best as I can but no can't catch a thing
 
ThuskezBandz said:
Hey guys
Not such great with Linux have this problem here where guest doesn't want to remove please help try to read this post as best as I can but no can't catch a thing
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Please consider opening a new thread and provide a bit more information (which error-messages do you get, what gets logged, screenshots)

I hope this helps!
 
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