Importing QCOW disk image to my Proxmox host.

[fasi74]

I have imported a QCOW disk image to my Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0.3 host, but when I follow the how-to guides available on the internet I am told to select the "Add existing HDD option, which I cannot find anywhere.
Please guide me, wish there was a tool available in the product to do this easily.

Kind Regards
Faisal Gillani

 

[supermicro_server]

I have imported a QCOW disk image to my Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0.3 host, but when I follow the how-to guides available on the internet I am told to select the "Add existing HDD option, which I cannot find anywhere.
Please guide me, wish there was a tool available in the product to do this easily.

Kind Regards
Faisal Gillani

On the Hardware manu for that VM, select "Unused Disk" and than ADD

MM

 

[fasi74]

Well for starters the HDD is located in /root folder of the proxmox host, and the VM is running on a NAS, over the NFS protocol, which is mounted in /mnt/<nfssharename>

how to make it appear in the unused disk list ?

 

[Nuke Bloodaxe]

Okay, that's a bit blindsiding. Could you describe the environment in full, so that answers to your questions can be given which will work?

 

[supermicro_server]

Well for starters the HDD is located in /root folder of the proxmox host, and the VM is running on a NAS, over the NFS protocol, which is mounted in /mnt/<nfssharename>

how to make it appear in the unused disk list ?

Please, post here the guide that you are following

 

[fasi74]

Here is the Guide that I was following,

https://bobcares.com/blog/proxmox-attach-existing-disk-to-vm/

As for detail, I have setup a proxmox cluster that is currently running none production VMs & containers, which are stored in a centralized NAS (TrueNAS) on NFS share,

Everything is running fine, now I plan to move the VMs from my "other" Hypervisors to proxmox, so in order to do that I copied one VM disk file ( QCOW disk image) to one of my proxmox hosts (in a cluster) into /root folder.

Now I tried to create a new VM and import that file to it, but stuck.

Thanks

 

[fschauer]

Place the QCOW2 disk image into /var/lib/vz/images/<vmid>/vm-<vmid>-disk-0.qcow2

Then add unused0: local:<vmid>/vm-<vmid>-disk-0.qcow2 to the /etc/pve/nodes/<node>/qemu-server/<vmid>.conf file.

The disk will then appear as unused on the hardware tab. The only thing left to do then is to add it by clicking Edit -> Add

 

[supermicro_server]

Here is the Guide that I was following,

https://bobcares.com/blog/proxmox-attach-existing-disk-to-vm/

As for detail, I have setup a proxmox cluster that is currently running none production VMs & containers, which are stored in a centralized NAS (TrueNAS) on NFS share,

Everything is running fine, now I plan to move the VMs from my "other" Hypervisors to proxmox, so in order to do that I copied one VM disk file ( QCOW disk image) to one of my proxmox hosts (in a cluster) into /root folder.

Now I tried to create a new VM and import that file to it, but stuck.

Thanks

Have a look here
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

 

[fasi74]

Thank you Guys this resolved my Issue.

May God Bless you.
Ameen.

 

[supermicro_server]

Thank you Guys this resolved my Issue.

May God Bless you.
Ameen.

Heppy to hear that!