"Image" consuming all of my storage

Shazam77

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Sep 14, 2025
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Hi All,

BRAND new to proxmox with very minimal VM and Linux experience. I'm trying to spin up a KVM server from a qcow2 file that I have in local/var/lib/vz/images and I am running into issues. I've created the VM:

qm config 868
agent: enabled=1
bios: seabios
boot: order=virtio0
cores: 4
cpu: host
hotplug: disk,network,usb,cpu
machine: q35
memory: 8000
meta: creation-qemu=10.0.2,ctime=1763028249
name: palo-Broker-VM-kvm
net0: virtio=BC:24:11:FC:EA:27,bridge=vmbr0,tag=1
net1: virtio=BC:24:11:AD:C9:23,bridge=vmbr0,tag=100
net2: virtio=BC:24:11:30:85:FE,bridge=vmbr0,tag=250
net3: virtio=BC:24:11:39:D8:EF,bridge=vmbr0,tag=20
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
serial0: socket
smbios1: uuid=784fac9d-f96b-4224-8244-0e93b1bfbaee
sockets: 1
unused0: Image:vm-868-disk-0
vmgenid: dcbfb1a9-640b-4b46-a10f-16379154da07

when I issue the command qm importdisk 868 "filename.qcow2" images --format qcow2 and I get the error message "filename.qcow2": non-existent or non-regular file

The file is definately in the folder, and when I extend the path in the command to qm importdisk 868 broker-vm-28.0.100.qcow2 /var/lib/vz/images/ --format qcow2 i get the error

storage: invalid format - storage ID '/var/lib/vz/images/' contains illegal characters

help!!