VM Restore error with qmrestore

[MikeM]

Hi all,

I tried to migrate 3 VMs from a proxmox 3.1 to a 3.4 machine (both iso installs from proxmox.com). So I scp'd the dumps to the new machine and got no error on migrating like this

qmrestore vm-100-disk-1.raw 100 -storage local -unique

The VMID is unused and the storage is "local" (different from old machine). vm-100-disk-1.raw is in place. All VMs appear on the webfront end, but starting them throws an error like this:

kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/vz/images/100/vm-100-disk-1.raw,if=none,id=drive-sata0,format=raw,aio=native,cache=none,detect-zeroes=on: file system may not support O_DIRECTd
kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/vz/images/100/vm-100-disk-1.raw,if=none,id=drive-sata0,format=raw,aio=native,cache=none,detect-zeroes=on: could not open disk image /var/lib/vz/images/100/vm-100-disk-1.raw: Could not open '/var/lib/vz/images/100/vm-100-disk-1.raw': Invalid argument
TASK ERROR: start failed: command '/usr/bin/kvm -id 100 -chardev 'socket,id=qmp,path=/var/run/qemu-server/100.qmp,server,nowait' -mon 'chardev=qmp,mode=control' -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/100.vnc,x509,password -pidfile /var/run/qemu-server/100.pid -daemonize -smbios 'type=1,uuid=f9004b01-431a-4a10-97a7-fdd76bcba60c' -name youtrack.intern.crea.de -smp '4,sockets=1,cores=4,maxcpus=4' -nodefaults -boot 'menu=on,strict=on,reboot-timeout=1000' -vga cirrus -cpu kvm64,+lahf_lm,+x2apic,+sep -m 1024 -k de -cpuunits 1000 -device 'piix3-usb-uhci,id=uhci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2' -device 'usb-tablet,id=tablet,bus=uhci.0,port=1' -device 'virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3' -iscsi 'initiator-name=iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:b8e0ac7248a' -drive 'if=none,id=drive-ide2,media=cdrom,aio=native' -device 'ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide2,id=ide2,bootindex=200' -device 'ahci,id=ahci0,multifunction=on,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7' -drive 'file=/var/lib/vz/images/100/vm-100-disk-1.raw,if=none,id=drive-sata0,format=raw,aio=native,cache=none,detect-zeroes=on' -device 'ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0,id=sata0,bootindex=100' -netdev 'type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap100i0,script=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridge,downscript=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridgedown' -device 'e1000,mac=3E:09:5A:E2:F4:A9,netdev=net0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x12,id=net0,bootindex=300'' failed: exit code 1

My only guess is that the "-unique" causes trouble but the console doesn't even start so I can't tell.

As the old machine has damaged disks, I only do have the backup dumps.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Mike