importovf fails with out of space

[lolniklas]

Just installed proxmox yesterday and have been busy migrating my old vmware hosts to the new proxmox server. The first 5 vms migrated without problems but when i try a larger (100GB) ovf vm i get an error "out of space"

root@pve:/mnt/pve/network-datastore/web7# qm importovf 105 web7_1.ovf local-proxmox
import failed - zfs error: cannot create 'local-proxmox/vm-105-disk-0': out of space

root@pve:/mnt/pve/network-datastore/web7# pvesm status
Name                     Type     Status           Total            Used       Available        %
local                     dir     active        18963120         2146188        15830616   11.32%
local-lvm             lvmthin     active        38039552         3880034        34159517   10.20%
local-proxmox         zfspool     active       471334648       203317744       268016904   43.14%
network-datastore         nfs     active      1824961408      1350584576       474376832   74.01%
network-proxmox          cifs     active       475552745         1176015       474376730    0.25%

but my small local zfs is only at 43% usage. So what im i missing?

 

[Moayad]

Please try to convert your vmdk to the VM storage path as our example [0] and see if the result is the same.

[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#Converting_to_qcow2

 

[lolniklas]

If i run

qemu-img convert -f vmdk /mnt/usb/windows-server/windows-server.vmdk -O qcow2 /var/lib/vz/images/100/windows-server.qcow2

wouldnt that put the image file on the local ssd? i dont have enough space on that drive so it needs to go on the zfs "local-proxmox"

 

[Moayad]

Can you use importovf with one of your network storages, then move the disk in UI

 

[lolniklas]

I ended up recreating the VM in proxmox since it was just a proxy server for the lan. I will try the qemu-img convert command later this week to see if that resolved the problem.