Deleting a virtual machine

[ustim]

1. I created a virtual machine with a system virtual disk.
2. I connected an additional virtual hard disk on which a lot of information is stored.

If now I want to delete the virtual machine, but this additional hard drive is also deleted. Why is this happening?
I tried unplugging this drive but it gets deleted anyway.

Can you help me remove the virtual machine correctly, but leave the additional hard drive in place?

 

[fiona]

Hi,
that's because from PVE's perspective the virtual disk belongs to the VM and thus is deleted when the VM is deleted. PVE is not really designed to have VM-less virtual disks lying around.

If you want to retain the virtual disk, you can either make a copy beforehand or rename/move it. In both cases it's important to choose a name different than vm-<ID>-* or a location that's not one of your configured storages.

Alternatively, you could delete/replace only the system disk.

 

[ustim]

Thank. Now I'll know.
Will have to find the right way to organize the file storage for a particular virtual machine.