Restoring VMs from disk query

GurdipS1

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Mar 24, 2026
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Hi,
I had to reinstall Proxmox VE 9.1 All good and I have the VMs on disk. However, they are identified by number (e.g. VM-100, etc) and not by name. Is there anyway I can get their name? I want to recreate the VMs but I don't know which VM ID is which OS.


Thanks
 
Hello!

You can give your VMs and CTs specific names and tags, which are stored in:


Code:
/etc/pve/nodes/NODE/qemu-server/VMID.conf


There you will also find the OS type of your machine (which is not necessarily expressive).


All available OS types are listed in the docs under the "ostype" option [1] or also in


Code:
man qm


Is that something you can work with? Whats the scenario you are in?


[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#qm_options
 
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