How can an existing .qcow2 image be attached to a VM without modifying it ?

[shodan]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out, how to attach an existing .qcow2 image file to a VM, but without using "qm importdisk"

What is the syntax ?

Suppose the qcow2 file is /tmp/temp.qcow2

Is there a syntax to attach it where it is ?

qm set 101 --sata0 /tmp/temp.qcow2
or
qm set 101 --sata0 local:images/temp.qcow2

Are these valid ? Or something close to that would be ?

In this case "local" storage is a "dir" storage at /var/lib/vz

thanks

 

[bbgeek17]

You can place the QCOW in appropriate directory ( /var/lib/vz/images/vm-101 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_Directory). Name it appropriately, ie vm-101-disk-10.qcow2. Then you can " qm disk rescan --vmid 101". This should pick the disk up as unusedX. You can then assign it as sata/ide/scsi.

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