Remove VM

[raj]

Hi team,

I had an iscsi linked to proxmox and there was an LVM on top of that iscsi.

I have deleted the iscsi but unfortunately still had a vm on it.

Now when I am trying to delete that VM from the gui, i get the following error:

"TASK ERROR: storage 'Datastore' does not exists"

Is there a way to remove that from the gui pls so I could restore that vm to the local storage.

Cheers,

Raj

 

[tom]

just delete the VMID.conf file (see /etc/pve/...)

 

[Rooker]

Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I have exactly the same problem:
VMs were for testing, and I removed the vm images before removing them from Proxmox
(Running Proxmox v4.4 on Debian 8)

There is no "/etc/pve/VMID.conf" file - but "/etc/pve/.vmlist".
Yet, I am unable to edit that file at all. Even as root...

 

[dietmar]

There is no "/etc/pve/VMID.conf" file

The file is inside /etc/pve/qemu-server/

 

[Rooker]

Oh!
"VMID.conf" meaning that "VMID" is to be replaced by the VM's ID. Got it now...

In my case it was called "/etc/pve/qemu-server/102.conf"

btw: I was able to remove the VMs through the GUI
Here's how:
The error I got was "TASK ERROR: storage 'local_pvedata' does not exists" - because I had removed "local_pvedata" intentionally (was testing-only).

So I just created a dummy "local_pvedata" storage as type "directory" pointing it to an empty folder I've created for this now.
Now "Remove" from the GUI works fine for deleting the VM.