VM configuration file not found

[Edwardjjj]

Greetings, everyone. I'm running a test setup of 3-node proxmox cluster with ceph as backend storage. My cluster worked fine so far, VM migration and HA are all working. But I just encountered some weird behavior when creating VM from a cloud-init template.

Followings are my steps:
1. create cloud-init template on node pve00:

qm create 9000 --name "ubuntu-2004-cloudinit-template" --memory 2048 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr1
qm importdisk 9000 focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.qcow2 HDD_POOL
qm set 9000 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --scsi0 HDD_POOL:vm-9000-disk-0
qm set 9000 --ide2 HDD_POOL:cloudinit
qm set 9000 --boot c --bootdisk scsi0
qm template 9000

where HDD_POOL is my rbd storage

2. create VM on the target node pve01:
qm clone 9000 300 --name my-virtual-machine

The commend did not proceed with the following error message:
unable to find configuration file for VM 9000 on node 'pve01'

Is this behavior by design or I'm doing it the wrong way. Please advice.

Thank you!

 

[oguz]

hi,

qm clone 9000 300 --name my-virtual-machine

you can add --target pve01 if VM disk is on shared storage. (but you run this from pve00)

 

[Edwardjjj]

hi,


you can add --target pve01 if VM disk is on shared storage. (but you run this from pve00)

Thank you for reply. So for ansible/terraform operations, it is best practice to put all templates on one node?

Best,
Edward