Importing a VM- 'config file does not exist'

[aconnor]

I've been getting help from @fabian in this thread-
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/zfs-mirror-rebuild.109411/#post-470449

But this is a new error, thus a new thread.
I've been able to get the VMs to local storage, but nothing I do will import them
Closest I can get is

qm importdisk 300 dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-103-disk-0.raw local-zfs --format qcow2

which gives this error-

Configuration file 'nodes/pve02/qemu-server/300.conf' does not exist

So I'm stuck again, how can I import these VMs and run them please?

 

[fabian]

you can only import into an existing VM, so you need to create the VM '300' first. if you are on the latest PVE version, you can create + import in one go

qm create 300 ... -scsi0 local-zfs:0,import-from=/path/to/image/file,...

(... is space to add other options like NICs, ...)

or you can create it using the GUI without any disks, and then add the disks using qm importdisk

 

[aconnor]

ah, that makes sense, thanks again @fabian
I did spend a lot of time on this but the tutorials I saw did not mention that requirement

Cheers!