VM disappeared after reboot

[vmbuff]

Hi,

I had a node where I had turned it on. I was able to use the VM. I rebooted the node. VM is no longer showing up under the node. I have only a single node and there is no cluster or another other nodes.

I still see the VM file qcow2 on the disk. How do I restore this as there is no restore button. That's only available for backup.

Any thoughts on why this would have happened? I did not change any configurations in Proxmox. Just a reboot.

Thanks.

 

[oguz]

hi,

I still see the VM file qcow2 on the disk. How do I restore this as there is no restore button. That's only available for backup.

you can try: qmrestore /path/to/backup/archive NEW_VMID, e.g. qmrestore /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2021_02_16-14_56_04.vma.zst 101

but it's unlikely that your VM just disappeared... do you see any errors in journalctl -r?

 

[vmbuff]

ok thanks! Phew good news.

The VM is still there.

What happened was I was accessing the node from 2 different computers (for convenience as they are in separate rooms). Computer A can see the VM from Chrome browser. Computer B did not see the VM from the Chrome browser.

Computer B Chrome browser had an older cache of Proxmox when the VM did not exist and the new VM wasn't showing up in Chrome. I did try an Empty Cache & Hard Reload which did not work. It only showed up after I manually deleted the "Local Storage" cache from Chrome. Then the VM showed up in Chrome.