[SOLVED] Migrating VBox to PVE4.2

[MasterTH]

Hi,

i've to migrate some virtual machines from virtualbox to proxmox 4.2. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but i'm struggeling with the lvm-thin storage-type which is used by default.

how can i create a volume that i can format with ext4 and mount it to copy the virtualbox files on?


Kind regards

 

[MasterTH]

got it

lvcreate -V 150G --thin -n VMs pve/data
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/pve-VMs
mount /dev/mapper/pve-VMs LOCATION

 

[dietmar]

You can also use the pvesm tool to allocate images:

# pvesm alloc <storage> <vmid> <filename> <size> [OPTIONS]

for example

# pvesm alloc local-lvm 400 vm-400-disk-1 4G

 

[MasterTH]

ok - and then makefs on that thin-vol.
got it.