How to import qcow2 from oher hdd

[simpsonetti]

Hi there,
i want to try out PVE in order to look if its for our School.
So here at my home i installed PVE. Its installed on a ssd with 250Gb. There are 2 Other HDD, one with 500Gb an the other one with 2Tb. on this 2 Tb there are some "old" qcow2 image from my opensuse qemu/kvm VM. One of these i want to import.
I mounted the HDD but how could i import now the image? I crate i new VM and thought to use the image in this VM but there is no option.
So how to deal with it.
Thanks and regards Sebastian

 

[fireon]

Place your image on pve with scp, rsync... after you can import it with "qm import" For example:

qm importdisk <vmid> yourimage.qcow2 namestoragepool

 

[simpsonetti]

Place your image on pve with scp, rsync... after you can import it with "qm import" For example:

qm importdisk <vmid> yourimage.qcow2 namestoragepool

Yeah, i tried to copy my qcow2 file but its to big.
there is a "local-lvm (pvc)" but where is it on my ssd? maybe this will work. the file is in container about 500Gb big, my pve-root only 60Gb. So i want it to use on my extra hd....

 

[fireon]

Mount the place where you qcow2 is stored with nfs on your pvehost, then import it on your pool.

 

[simpsonetti]

Mount the place where you qcow2 is stored with nfs on your pvehost, then import it on your pool.

Hey yes, its working, but now after importing the file its a rawfile now...

 

[fireon]

Hey yes, its working, but now after importing the file its a rawfile now...

That's ok on LVM.