[PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume?

[PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume?

[Marco Gaiarin]

In my home server i've an LXC container with an additional mountpoint, that
contain a lot of data (1.5TB).

I need to convert the LXC to a VM; there's no trouble to reinstall the base
machine, but if possible i don't want to 'move' 1.5TB of data...


Can i simply (a rename suffices? I'm using ZFS as storage) convert an LXC
mountpoint to an VM (additional) volume?


Thanks.

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Re: [PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume?

[Fabian Ebner]

Hi,
I don't think that's possible without moving the data. The LXC 
mountpoint is a ZFS file system, but for a VM you need a ZFS volume, 
which is a virtual block device, so renaming won't work.

Am 26.10.21 um 18:55 schrieb Marco Gaiarin:
> 
> In my home server i've an LXC container with an additional mountpoint, that
> contain a lot of data (1.5TB).
> 
> I need to convert the LXC to a VM; there's no trouble to reinstall the base
> machine, but if possible i don't want to 'move' 1.5TB of data...
> 
> 
> Can i simply (a rename suffices? I'm using ZFS as storage) convert an LXC
> mountpoint to an VM (additional) volume?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Re: [PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume?

[devzero]

in theory, there is a way to passtrough files into a VM in kvm/qemu, but i don't think thats "ready for production", especially with large amounts of data

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/virtfs-virtio-9p-plans-to-incorporate.35315/
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio

roland



> Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2021 um 18:55 Uhr
> Von: "Marco Gaiarin" <gaio@lilliput.linux.it>
> An: pve-user@lists.proxmox.com
> Betreff: [PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume?
>
> 
> In my home server i've an LXC container with an additional mountpoint, that
> contain a lot of data (1.5TB).
> 
> I need to convert the LXC to a VM; there's no trouble to reinstall the base
> machine, but if possible i don't want to 'move' 1.5TB of data...
> 
> 
> Can i simply (a rename suffices? I'm using ZFS as storage) convert an LXC
> mountpoint to an VM (additional) volume?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: [PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume?

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Fabian Ebner
  In chel di` si favelave...

> I don't think that's possible without moving the data. The LXC 
> mountpoint is a ZFS file system, but for a VM you need a ZFS volume, 
> which is a virtual block device, so renaming won't work.

 root@vmedialpb:~# mount | grep /srv
 hddpool/data/subvol-102-disk-0 on /srv type zfs (rw,xattr,posixacl)

OK, i have to move some data... ;-(((


Thanks.

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