container importdisk

[drthrax232]

Is there any solution to import .raw to the container?
Like command qm importdisk (vmid) (path) (storage)

 

[oguz]

hi,

unfortunately there's no easy command for that.

one way to do it would be if you have a directory storage (for example the default local storage /var/lib/vz/), you could place the raw image file in the directory of your container, and add the new disk to the container configuration as a mountpoint.

for example:

root@pve:~# cd /var/lib/vz/images/131/ # replace 131 with your container ID
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/images/131# ls
vm-131-disk-0.raw
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/images/131# cp /path/to/your/file.raw vm-131-disk-1.raw
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/images/131# nano /etc/pve/lxc/131.conf

and add a mountpoint line to your container configuration.

before:

arch: amd64
cores: 1
hostname: mycontainer
memory: 512
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,ip=dhcp,type=veth
ostype: ubuntu
rootfs: local:131/vm-131-disk-0.raw,size=4G
swap: 512
unprivileged: 1

after:

arch: amd64
cores: 1
hostname: mycontainer
memory: 512
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,ip=dhcp,type=veth
ostype: ubuntu
rootfs: local:131/vm-131-disk-0.raw,size=4G
mp0: local:131/vm-131-disk-1.raw,mp=/foo,size=4G # this line is new
swap: 512
unprivileged: 1

and run pct rescan at the end (to update the size parameter automatically)

start and enter your container, and the disk should be mounted in /foo directory

hope this helps