How Do I Transfer/Import QCOW2 From Windows To Proxmox

[congresstart]

Hey all,

Very new to Proxmox so apologies for reaching out.

I have a qcow2 I wish to transfer over from Windows to Proxmox on a Micro PC.

I'm unable to FTP/Sctp into the host with authentication errors for both.
I have checked the time zone is correct.

I've given up on a network transfer so thrown the qcow on a usb hard drive which is now in the host.

Now wondering what the string format required is given the below data?

qm importdisk 104 /dev/sdb1/DOCKERPC-0.qcow2 --storage local --format qcow

Am I anywhere close with this?

I'm happy to store the data in local for now

The file name is: DOCKERPC-0.qcow2

The VM ID is 104

USB Disk:



VM Details:



Thank you and sorry for the basic questions.

 

[bbgeek17]

The USB disk is formatted as NTFS. There is no built-in NTFS support in Linux Kernel (search the forum as this topic has been discussed before).
Google how to mount NTFS disk on modern Linux (PVE). Once you have it mounted, you can then use the command you posted with the correct path, ie "/mnt/temp/filename".

Depending on the file size, you can also re-format your USB as FAT32, for slightly more straightforward access.

Good luck

PS google "how to mount usb disk" and add NTFS if necessary

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[congresstart]

The USB disk is formatted as NTFS. There is no built-in NTFS support in Linux Kernel (search the forum as this topic has been discussed before).
Google how to mount NTFS disk on modern Linux (PVE). Once you have it mounted, you can then use the command you posted with the correct path, ie "/mnt/temp/filename".

Depending on the file size, you can also re-format your USB as FAT32, for slightly more straightforward access.

Good luck

PS google "how to mount usb disk" and add NTFS if necessary

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Thank you.

Does Proxmox recognise exFAT or only FAT32?

 

[bbgeek17]

Does Proxmox recognise exFAT or only FAT32?

PVE uses Debian Linux with Ubuntu derived Kernel. A quick google search indicates that exfat is natively supported by Linux.

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[congresstart]

PVE uses Debian Linux with Ubuntu derived Kernel. A quick google search indicates that exfat is natively supported by Linux.

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Thank you.

I've pushed on from here.

I've imported the qcow2.

sudo cp /dev/sdb2/DOCKERPC-0.qcow2 /var/lib/vz/template/qcow/

qm importdisk 104 DOCKERPC-0.qcow2 local-lvm

I've changed the config of the VM so it can see the disk, this has resulted in an error on boot

Is the name likely to be the issue here and if so am I able to edit this without importing it again?

 

[bbgeek17]

You, presumably, successfully imported the disk. It exists now in your LVM pool as an LVM slice. Why do you still have the original qcow as part of your VM config?
Go ahead and detach/unset it. It has a name that does not pass PVE sanity checks, hence it caused a VM start issue.

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