trouble importing or moving vms to new directory

[ronaldm271]

hello everyone,

I am a huge fan of proxmox and have been using with no issues for quite some time. recently my main OS drive failed and i had to reinstall the software. I was able to reimport my zfs raids and my one LVM disk, but i am not able to import my VM's. i am able to see the files listed under the content tab for each storage and when i do zfs list i am able to see the files as well. my issue is that i am unable to find a command where i can copy the vm's to another directory i created. in the screenshot i included, i created a samba share and am able to navigate to it but i am not able to copy the vms to that directory. if i someone is able to, i am sure i can reimport the disk using "qm set <vmid> /path/to/file" command. can someone please help me get going? thank you so much

 

[alexskysilk]

well, if you dont have your vm.conf files you will need to recreate them before you can do anything with your disks.

Once you recreate the vm.conf files (do not create a disk for them,) these existing disks will appear as unused for the matching vmid (eg, if you create a vm with id 100, you will see vm-100-disk-0 as an available disk which you can them map to the vm.)

 

[ronaldm271]

i will try not creating disk for them, but how can i point to those vm files when using the qm set vmid ide0: command?

 

[alexskysilk]

Once the vm is created, just click "Edit" with the disk selected.