Hello! Help me please with my problem. I have a RAID-1 with several RAW VMs from ProxMox 6.1 (partitions, not RAW files). And I want to add them into my proxmox server 6.2 to run. I had read manuals and I can create a VMs from backup files (vzdump-qemu). All works fine. But several VMs have no backups. Only RAW VM in RAID partitions. I had already add a RAID as a storage. I see all my VMs in web interface as a disk images on RAW format. But only "Remove" button is active. How I can run them?
How to add a raw VM from RAID?
- Thread starter Pavel Turchin
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Okay. You don't have a backup of the config files of the VMs located in
After that you can run
You might want to remove the disks automatically created when you created the VMs. Consider giving the disk during the VM creation wizard a small size to easily identify the disk you want removed.
After you set up the disks as you want, make sure that the boot order in the Options panel of the VM is set corretly.
/etc/pve/qemu right? In that case, what you can do is to create new VMs with the matching VM ID.After that you can run
qm rescan on the CLI of the node to search all storages for disks which are not yet assigned to a VM. After this, you should see Unused disks in the hardware panel of the VMs which you then can attach by double clicking on them and configuring them.You might want to remove the disks automatically created when you created the VMs. Consider giving the disk during the VM creation wizard a small size to easily identify the disk you want removed.
After you set up the disks as you want, make sure that the boot order in the Options panel of the VM is set corretly.
thank you very much! It works! But I see no VMs in WEB-interface of proxmox. So I created a VM with fake hdd. Then I went to /etc/pve/qemu and change hdd parameter to my VM partitions names. And it works!!! Thank you!
Tell me please, parameter "size" after VM partition name in /etc/pve/qemu/*.conf file I set "200G" if i see that size on web view of ProxMox when I click on storage, and "content" after that. Is it correct? Or I should check VM size by another tool?
Tell me please, parameter "size" after VM partition name in /etc/pve/qemu/*.conf file I set "200G" if i see that size on web view of ProxMox when I click on storage, and "content" after that. Is it correct? Or I should check VM size by another tool?
This does not need to be set and the parameter in the config file has no effect on the actual VM disk. If you remove that parameter you will sooner or later get it set automatically with the value that the disk has.
From the qm.conf man page:
Code:
size=<DiskSize>
Disk size. This is purely informational and has no effect.Thank you very much for your answers! And the last question please. 
Where I can find a "notes" from my VMs? Where ProxMox stores it? I want try to restore it from my VMs and make backups for future.
Where I can find a "notes" from my VMs? Where ProxMox stores it? I want try to restore it from my VMs and make backups for future.
The notes are stored in the config file of the VM located atWhere I can find a "notes" from my VMs? Where ProxMox stores it? I want try to restore it from my VMs and make backups for future.
/etc/pve/qemu-server/