[SOLVED] Moving a whole VM to another host

Alex Fuchs

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Hello community,

I have one physical Host, on which I´ve running Proxmox VE with some VMs.
Unfortunatelly I have to disassemble this physical host this week.
So I was trying to move a whole vm-104-disk-1.qcow2-Image from one host to another earlier today.
The new host is a Proxmox VE which is already virtualized on a VMware ESXi Server (I don´t have another option at the moment).
Finally I copied the whole .qcow2-Image onto the new Proxmox´s HardDrive and moved it to it´s final path
( /var/lib/vz/images/vm-104-disk-1.qcow2 ).
But now I have the problem, that I don´t know how to mount/import/add or search for the vm-104-disk-1.qcow2-Image on the new Proxmox-Host.

Can you tell me any further steps?

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards from Germany
Alexander Fuchs
 
* create a new VM with ID 104 on your new server with a qcow disk
* overwrite the disk in /var/lib/vz/images/104/ with your original file
* on the Web UI, go to the VM settings, the disk size is probably wrong, unplug the disk (select the disk then click on the "remove" button")
* the disk will appear as "unused", select it and add it again to your VM, it will be correctly recognized this time.
 

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