How to move disk another machine

[abrasum]

Hello.

I'm using proxmox lastest version.
I'm using the LVM storage in proxmox.

# cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg
lvm: local-safe
        vgname vg-safe
        content images,rootdir
        shared 0

dir: iso-backups
        path /srv/iso-backups
        content vztmpl,iso,backup
        maxfiles 5
        shared 0

dir: local
        disable
        path /var/lib/vz
        content vztmpl
        maxfiles 0
        shared 0

I created a KVM machine and added into its 2 disks VirtIO.
How I can delete the virtual machine without deleting second disk?
I want to create a new machine and add a saved disk from the first machine.

 

[fabian]

you can't - disks are associated with one guest. you can either create the new machine in place (delete the disk you don't want to keep, add a new disk, and install your guest operating system). if you want to change the VM ID, you can either use backup/restore or full clone and delete the source afterwards.

 

[abrasum]

you can't - disks are associated with one guest. you can either create the new machine in place (delete the disk you don't want to keep, add a new disk, and install your guest operating system). if you want to change the VM ID, you can either use backup/restore or full clone and delete the source afterwards.

thank you very much!
I will try your method now!

 

[abrasum]

Although, I have another situation.
So, I have two KVM machine. Can I to move a disk firsts machine to second machine?

 

[fabian]

Although, I have another situation.
So, I have two KVM machine. Can I to move a disk firsts machine to second machine?

not without manually editing config files and renaming disks, which should only be done if you really know and understand what you are doing.

 

[PaulVM]

Since Proxmox 1.x I had often "played" with the .conf file editing it as I need.
I could clone a VM simply copying and modifying the .conf file
I can move/copy disk images if needed.
I understand that this can easily leads to mistakes, but it is really pratical for simple servers management
Proxmox is great in this: changes in conf file are immediatly available in gui. A good 2-way tool like webmin for managing servers.
With LVM-Thin things seems a bit more complex, but we can still manage it.
Am I using a so really bad approach?

Thanks, P.

 

[abrasum]

Well, I will describe in detail.
This is config-file first machine:

root@vmserversql:~# cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/108.conf
bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 1
ide2: iso-backups:iso/openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64.iso,media=cdrom
memory: 1024
name: machine-test-clone
net0: virtio=2A:CF:22:41:88:F4,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=f4b8cd6c-dc8d-4ea6-b2f4-8ea68cbcd120
sockets: 1
virtio0: local-safe:vm-108-disk-1,size=12G
virtio1: local-safe:vm-108-disk-2,size=10G

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I want to move drive virtio1: local-safe:vm-108-disk-2,size=10G to the second machine.
If I add this line to the configuration file of the second machine and remove it from configuration file first machine, will be enough? If I that delete first machine, this drive will remain?