August 1, 2024 - If you really want to clone a VM ... 1. Go to the directory on your NAS share, where the VM's qcow2 file is located (usually called `images`) and copy the whole directory and rename the files accordingly to the new VM's id (you may need ...

August 3, 2015 - Never tried, but, looking at my VMs storage folder, you should probably: stop the VM to be cloned, clone it as usual on a storage that allows snapshots (like NFS fore above qcow2 example) and then by CLI copy snapshots raw images in the destination folder, renaming them appropriately note: the destination VM should have in its .conf a line like vmstate: <storage name>:122/vm-122-state-img_002.raw stating what snapshot file is in use now and a line like snaptime: 1438262544 stating when the snapshot in use was taken, I guess.

February 16, 2020 - @Fabian_E you are right: need to copy original main disk from disabled vm and all the snapshots, to make this "feature" works. of cource with replacing storage/mac/vmgenid in clonded config (original config copy-pasta).

May 19, 2023 - How to do that? Thanks a lot. ... Right click on the source VM and hit clone. Then you pick the snapshot you want: ... a second problem is that i do not have enough free space on that host. That's the reason for the question about "zfs send".

January 4, 2025 - For this tutorial, I created a virtual machine (VM), with ID 905, for which I created three "stateful" (memory included) snapshots that I called snapshot1, snapshot2, and snapshot3. The first thing we need to do is create a full copy of the original "disk", including all of it's snapshots.

March 10, 2026 - 2. What is the difference between a full clone and a linked clone in Proxmox? A full clone creates a complete, independent copy of the VM, including all disk data. A linked clone shares the base disk image with the original VM, saving storage space but depending on the parent template/VM snapshot.

May 27, 2021 - If you have snapshots of the VM and you select one of those, the created clone will be in the same state as the VM when the snapshot was taken. For more information about cloning VMs take a look at [1]. [1] https://localhost:8006/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#qm_copy_and_clone

February 3, 2025 - With this you can transfer all data in a ZFS dataset (or ZVol in this case) including all ZFS-snapshots. Then manually copy /etc/pve/local/qemu-server/<yourvmid>.conf and edit it manually to reflect the new names of storage etc. This file includes a separate stanza for each snapshot.

March 2, 2026 - ... Best regards, Manuel Do you already have a Commercial Support Subscription? - If not, Buy now and read the documentation ... So in conclusion, there is no way to move a VM's disk to a different storage together with the snapshots, right?

April 13, 2015 - This work with any storage. (so you don't need to backup/restore). linked clone of vm is not implemented. ... Are you looking for a French Proxmox training center? https://www.groupe-cyllene.com/formation-proxmox/ ... Here is how to make a copy-on-write clone of a container when storage is rbd on ceph. In this example we take a snapshot of 184 which is in ceph pool "mypool" and copy-on-write clone will be 199.

July 28, 2020 - it depends on the storage whether this works or not. you can try yourself by selecting anything but 'current' in the 'clone VM' dialogue.. Click to expand... If I click on the snapshot, only the options are active: - Take snapshop - Rollback - Remove - Edit Type of storage is lvmthin

January 18, 2024 - You'd need to, while the VM is down, copy the snap_vm-XYZ-disk-N_NAME and vm-XYZ-state-NAME volumes and the actual volumes (state volumes are only present for snapshots with RAM) to the new storage and adapt the VM configuration file accordingly ...

April 27, 2025 - Linked Clone is based on COW technology, where a writable copy is created that initially shares the same content and data as the original. The process of generating a linked clone is very fast, almost instantaneous, and consumes very little storage space upon creation. To enable Linked Clone functionality, Proxmox VE requires the source image to be in a “Read-Only” state. To achieve this, Proxmox VE offers a template feature, which allows you to convert a VM into a read-only template.

September 26, 2020 - - step1 = shutdown VM via the GUI ... via the GUI - step3 = send this snapshot recursively (with the -R flag) which will send the complete tree (snapshot + all previous snapshots + initial volume)...

January 16, 2024 - Welcome to r/Proxmox , the main subreddit regarding the Proxmox hypervisor! ... I'd like to create a linked clone (either from a template or another VM), but with the caveat that it contains RAM state from a given snapshot. This way, the new VM can skip the boot sequence and have prerequisites started and ready to go and because it's a linked clone, it doesn't need to copy the whole source disk either.

November 9, 2025 - Du kannst nur einen Stand der VM exportieren/importieren. Die Snapshots und deren Abhängigkeiten sind dann weg. Wenn Du ein Snapshot-Volume kopierst, hast Du im Ergebnis die volle Diskgröße, weil es keine geteilten Blöcke mehr gibt mit dem Original oder früheren Snapshots.

July 28, 2023 - But this open source project could help you: https://github.com/Corsinvest/cv4pve-autosnap ... You can do it easily with Proxmox Back Server, it’s the new backup server solutions , you can install it on proxmox as a VM, and it will backup ...

August 26, 2014 - Click to expand... copy - vm config file : /etc/pve/qemu-server/vmid.cfg - vm disk : /var/lib/vz/images/<vmid>/* to your new server. if you change the vmid, edit your vm.cfg file, and rename the vm disk files ...

March 13, 2019 - Select the VM from the Proxmox GUI and right click on it. Click Clone to open a cloning dialogue box. Select the options such as target node, new VM ID, VM name, cloning mode, etc.