Unable to import vmdk into Proxmox because it’s actually a RAW file
Whilst using qm importdisk you may experience the following problem: root@hvX:~# qm importdisk 123 disk.vmdk nasX importing disk ‘disk.vmdk’ to VM 123 … iscsiadm: No
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How to create a live snapshow of a running KVM virtual machine
KVM Snapshotting and Cloning 101 Snapshotting First the VM must be in qcow2 format. Do this to check: virsh dumpxml nsx.example.com | grep -i qemu
How to convert a raw .img KVM file to a .qcow2 file
Qcow2 is a better format for various reasons, see this link. If you have a KVM host and some of the computers are in img
How to import a QCOW2 file to Proxmox
Background At times you will have a QCOW2 file that you want to import into Proxmox. Although this is a fairly trivial process, if you