snapshot does not work

[informant]

Hi, a little question. i have a vm with 2 hdds. 1st virtio qcow2 and 2nd virtio vmdk. but the create snapshot (Live Snapshots) button is grey - i can´t click it, why? any ideas?
regards

bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 4
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 16384
name: host1.local.loc
net0: e1000=D2:DB:E4:6A:20:45,bridge=vmbr0
net1: e1000=D6:3B:79:4D:0F:EB,bridge=vmbr1
onboot: 1
ostype: other
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=9fc6301f-1c86-4a00-a11c-08d9061eec23
sockets: 1
virtio0: local:5138/vm-5138-disk-1.qcow2,size=100G
virtio1: local:5138/vm-5138-disk-2.vmdk,backup=0,size=1T

 pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 4.2-56 (running kernel: 4.4.8-1-pve)
pve-manager: 4.2-15 (running version: 4.2-15/6669ad2c)
pve-kernel-4.4.6-1-pve: 4.4.6-48
pve-kernel-4.4.13-1-pve: 4.4.13-56
pve-kernel-4.2.6-1-pve: 4.2.6-36
pve-kernel-4.4.8-1-pve: 4.4.8-52
pve-kernel-4.2.8-1-pve: 4.2.8-41
pve-kernel-4.2.2-1-pve: 4.2.2-16
pve-kernel-4.2.3-2-pve: 4.2.3-22
lvm2: 2.02.116-pve2
corosync-pve: 2.3.5-2
libqb0: 1.0-1
pve-cluster: 4.0-42
qemu-server: 4.0-83
pve-firmware: 1.1-8
libpve-common-perl: 4.0-70
libpve-access-control: 4.0-16
libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-55
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.5-2
vncterm: 1.2-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.5-19
pve-container: 1.0-70
pve-firewall: 2.0-29
pve-ha-manager: 1.0-32
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u2
lxc-pve: 1.1.5-7
lxcfs: 2.0.0-pve2
cgmanager: 0.39-pve1
criu: 1.6.0-1

 

[tom]

vmdk does not support snapshots on Proxmox VE.

=> convert to qcow2.

 

[informant]

hi,. i know, but i would make a snapshot of hdd-1. this is qcow2 already. regards

 

[Alex Metcalre]

Hi - I'm running now Proxmox 5.4. I've a VM which has been converted from vmdk to qcow2. The VM boots fine, but snapshots are unavailable. Storage is zfs. Ideas?