Move VM and Snapshots to a new LVM volume
- Thread starter swinster
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Hi,
unfortunately, it's not possible at the moment via Proxmox VE API/CLI. Feel free to open a feature request on our bugtracker (after checking if one exists). You'd need to do it manually.
Proceed at your own risk!
You'd need to, while the VM is down, copy the
To be safe, I'd change the ID to something else while copying, and also copy the configuration file (adapting the ID everywhere), so you can work with the copy and only remove the original volumes after verifying that everything works as expected. You can even take a new snapshot, so you can test rollback to others without losing current state.
unfortunately, it's not possible at the moment via Proxmox VE API/CLI. Feel free to open a feature request on our bugtracker (after checking if one exists). You'd need to do it manually.
Proceed at your own risk!
You'd need to, while the VM is down, copy the
snap_vm-XYZ-disk-N_NAME and vm-XYZ-state-NAME volumes and the actual volumes (state volumes are only present for snapshots with RAM) to the new storage and adapt the VM configuration file accordingly (reference to disks, vmstate entries).To be safe, I'd change the ID to something else while copying, and also copy the configuration file (adapting the ID everywhere), so you can work with the copy and only remove the original volumes after verifying that everything works as expected. You can even take a new snapshot, so you can test rollback to others without losing current state.
