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From: devzero@web.de
To: pve-user@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:04:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-defc0468-d902-47b9-9eb4-54537cac2fcc-1635408264922@3c-app-webde-bap09> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8gol4i-t141.ln1@hermione.lilliput.linux.it>

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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-28  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26 16:55 Marco Gaiarin
2021-10-27  7:21 ` Fabian Ebner
2021-10-29 10:32   ` Marco Gaiarin
2021-10-28  8:04 ` devzero [this message]

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