Import vmdk

[powder8]

Hy,

I'm trying to covert my VMWare VM's to Proxmox. I've copied the vmdk to the Proxmox Server an tried to import with

root@proxmox:~# qm importdisk 105 oracle_webserver_17-flat.vmdk local -format qcow2

but I get this

storage local does not support vm images

error.

Can please anyone help me or give me a hint? Thanks....

 

[sterzy]

Hi,

can you post the file "/etc/pve/storage.cfg". This might not be working because the default local storage isn't configured to allow for VM disks. You can either enable that in the GUI or use a different (more appropriate) local storage that should also be configured by default (either "local-lvm" or "local-zfs"). To do the former option, go to "Datacenter > Storage", select the "local" storage and click "Edit". There select "Disk image" in the "Content" dropdown.

 

[powder8]

Thans for your help.

Here you go.

root@proxmox:~# cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg
dir: local
    path /var/lib/vz
    content iso,vztmpl,backup

lvmthin: local-lvm
    thinpool data
    vgname pve
    content rootdir,images
root@proxmox:~#

Should be the same than in the pic above, I think...

 

[powder8]

Thanks,

 

[B.Otto]

In your screenshot you can see why, in the third column ('Content'). Your Storage 'local-lvm' has 'Disk image' enabled, while 'local' has not. That is the default setting, since local is a file storage and local-lvm a blockstorage.

Also, your importdisk-command sets the disk type as qcow2, which is of type file storage. So you have two options:

If you wanna stick to qcow2 you have to enable the Disk image content for local (Datacenter > Storage > Edit 'local').

The other option is to import the disk as block storage into local-lvm with
qm importdisk 105 oracle_webserver_17-flat.vmdk local-lvm

Generally the 'local' storage is used for iso-images and maybe some backups, while the local-lvm is more suited for VM disks.