From 13962741a69fe93f80223163b953f7a40e1a263d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Dominic=20J=C3=A4ger?= Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 11:56:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] pvesm: Add example & clarification for export The literal usage of "qcow2+size" as well as what the command is supposed to do has confused users [0]. [0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/trying-to-convert-raw-disk-to-vmdk-using-pvesm.70046/ --- pvesm.adoc | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/pvesm.adoc b/pvesm.adoc index b76ce87..612c0eb 100644 --- a/pvesm.adoc +++ b/pvesm.adoc @@ -357,6 +357,14 @@ Show file system path for a volume pvesm path +Exporting the volume `local:103/vm-103-disk-0.qcow2` to the file `target`. +This is mostly used internally with `pvesm import`. +The stream format qcow2+size is different to the qcow2 format. +Consequently, the exported file cannot simply be attached to a VM. +This also holds for the other formats. + + pvesm export local:103/vm-103-disk-0.qcow2 qcow2+size target --with-snapshots 1 + ifdef::wiki[] See Also