How to create a vm without disk

[nharmando]

Hello,

I am migrating from windows server 2012 r2 to proxmox, but I need to know how to make a vm from a existing virtual disk

I need to make a VM but I only have a file .vhd: my_disk.vhd

I have made VM in VirtualBox and in that, I can create a VM without disk and I can add the file .vhd after and then I can to start VM with its own OS installed.

Can you help me with this please

 

[fireon]

Yes, you can do this with CMD:

qm create VMID

But do not use vmdk files directly. Yes you can but it is not recommended. Convert it to RAW and to qcow2 but this is depending on your storagemodel. Please have a look at: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/migrate-w2012-r2-from-xenserver-anyone.30663/#post-153688

 

[nharmando]

thank's so much for your answer fireon, I have converted my disc to qcow2, in that disk I have the SO but I don't know how to add to my VM.

How can I do that?

Regards!

 

[tschanness]

Hi, create a new VM and replace the generated disk file.

Jonas

 

[nharmando]

Yes, I have create the VM and I have the disck file:

root@virtual:~# ls /var/lib/vz/origen/
DimensionToProxmox-disk1.qcow2

Where can I replace the original file? the original disk file is in /dev/pve?

I see:

root@virtual:/dev# ls -l pve/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 12 09:15 vm-102-disk-1 -> ../dm-11

I can find the *.qcow2 orginal disk file what I must to replace

Regards

 

[fireon]

What Storage Model do you using? And what pveversion?

 

[nharmando]

What Storage Model do you using? And what pveversion?

I am using proxmox 4.3.1 when I created a new disk, the "Format" is disabled and it would be storage in "local-lvm"



In my Datacenter only have 2:



If you notice, the format of the disk is *.raw, I can't change it