Mount existing virtual disk to a VM

[showiproute]

Hello there,

I am currently migrating from ESXI6.7 to Proxmox.

Is there a way to mount an existing VM disk (vmdk or qcow2) to a VM directly?


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[oguz]

hi,

you could put the disk in a storage, and then add it to the VM configuration in /etc/pve/qemu-server/VMID.conf

 

[showiproute]

Hello Oguz,

thanks for the information.
How would the right syntax look like?

A current virtual disk from a VM would look like

scsi0: local-lvm:vm-105-disk-0,discard=on,size=16G

As and example my disk would be mounted on my Proxmox host at

/mnt/vmfs/disk1

 

[oguz]

for example if /mnt/vmfs is set as a storage (configured in your storage settings), and let's say it's called vmfs and you have a qcow2 disk called disk1.qcow2

adding:

scsi1: vmfs:disk1.qcow2

you might need to rename the qcow2 file to match the format, vm-VMID-disk-ID so f.e. vm-105-disk-1.qcow2

hope it helps

 

[showiproute]

Okay and is the storage configuration somehow documentated?
Like in the config file
dir: local path /var/lib/vz content backup,vztmpl,iso

Is it "okay" for Proxmox to edit the storage configuration itself or should that be done via the web GUI?

 

[oguz]

you can edit it on the web GUI on Datacenter -> Storage

the storage config is documented here [0] as well, it can be edited manually if you know what you're doing

[0]: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage