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 ...

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".

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).

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.

January 4, 2025 - zfs send \ rpool/data/vm-$SOURCE_VM_ID-state-snapshot1 \ | zfs receive rpool/data/vm-$DEST_VM_ID-disk-0-state-snapshot1 zfs send \ rpool/data/vm-$SOURCE_VM_ID-state-snapshot2 \ | zfs receive rpool/data/vm-$DEST_VM_ID-state-snapshot2 zfs send \ rpool/data/vm-$SOURCE_VM_ID-state-snapshot3 \ | zfs receive rpool/data/vm-$DEST_VM_ID-state-snapshot3 · Now we have our snapshots, but they wont show up in the proxmox GUI. To resolve this we need to manually create or update the clone's Proxmox config file, in order to specify to tell Proxmox about the snapshots. This is easily done by copying the configuration file for the original VM over to the clone like so:

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

April 27, 2025 - This blog gives a comprehensive guide of cloning virtual machine in Proxmox VE, including Full Clone and Linked Clone.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

September 26, 2020 - zfs send -R hddpool/proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-disk-0@ready_to_move | zfs recv hddpool/enc_proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-disk-0 - step4 = send the state volumes (states volumes are created when snapshotting an active VM with the "include RAM" checkbox ticked). You can list them with "zfs list" ... zfs send hddpool/proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-state-snap2 | zfs recv hddpool/enc_proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-state-snap2 - step5 = update all paths in /etc/pve/qemu-server/110.conf - step6 = start VM and test everything - step7 = destroy the old volumes and snapshots (with the -r flag)

July 28, 2020 - In order not to stop the operation of the entire virtual machine, But to create a new virtual machine from yesterday's snapshot. Get the file you want and delete it. ... it depends on the storage whether this works or not. you can try yourself ...

January 16, 2024 - 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…

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 ...

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?

June 9, 2021 - Can this be done using the Proxmox UI? Or is there a single command (or 2) that we can use on the command line to do this (and will the copied VM disk show up in the Proxmox UI)? Thanks! ... Depending on your task, a snapshot or backup of the whole guest would be the easiest solution.

April 20, 2017 - Unfortunately I am not sure if this was working in 4.x or something that came with the 5.0 code. ... Best regards, Dominik Do you already have a Commercial Support Subscription? - If not, Buy now and read the documentation ... cloning from snapshot is not available on all storage need to have snap=>1 in plugin (maybe do you use zfs ?) grep -r copy /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/ /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/RBDPlugin.pm: copy => { base => 1, current => 1, snap => 1}, /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/ZFSPlugin.pm: copy => { base => 1, current => 1}, /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/DRBDPlugin.pm: copy =>