Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM
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We had to re-install Proxmox but the actual drive file is on another logical volume so it survived.
I am trying to figure out how to tell the Proxmox VM to use the existing drive. There doesn't seem like a way to do it using the GUI and I can't find anything on the Proxmox forum that says how to do this.
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You have that info in the thread below from the other day:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/21751/import-a-qcow2-into-proxmoxBasically you need to put it in the right place and it has to have the right name (depending on config file, what filesystem, VM ID)
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@Pete-S said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
You have that info in the thread below from the other day:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/21751/import-a-qcow2-into-proxmoxBasically you need to put it in the right place and it has to have the right name (depending on config file, what filesystem, VM ID)
Right, it seems that you just go into the config and edit the name of the drive to point to the correct volume name and ta da.
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@scottalanmiller said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
@Pete-S said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
You have that info in the thread below from the other day:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/21751/import-a-qcow2-into-proxmoxBasically you need to put it in the right place and it has to have the right name (depending on config file, what filesystem, VM ID)
Right, it seems that you just go into the config and edit the name of the drive to point to the correct volume name and ta da.
What do you need to do in order to change the boot order?
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@CCWTech said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
@scottalanmiller said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
@Pete-S said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
You have that info in the thread below from the other day:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/21751/import-a-qcow2-into-proxmoxBasically you need to put it in the right place and it has to have the right name (depending on config file, what filesystem, VM ID)
Right, it seems that you just go into the config and edit the name of the drive to point to the correct volume name and ta da.
What do you need to do in order to change the boot order?
Boot order should logically speaking be in the VM settings since it's a BIOS setting in a non-virtual machine.
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@CCWTech said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
@scottalanmiller said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
@Pete-S said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
You have that info in the thread below from the other day:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/21751/import-a-qcow2-into-proxmoxBasically you need to put it in the right place and it has to have the right name (depending on config file, what filesystem, VM ID)
Right, it seems that you just go into the config and edit the name of the drive to point to the correct volume name and ta da.
What do you need to do in order to change the boot order?
You can do this in the GUI.
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@Pete-S said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:
You have that info in the thread below from the other day:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/21751/import-a-qcow2-into-proxmoxBasically you need to put it in the right place and it has to have the right name (depending on config file, what filesystem, VM ID)
So the problem that I've seen from this is that it causes PM to get confused and not be able to display the storage data. Everything works, it just can't tell you where files are or delete unused space or whatever.
