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/ --- It has also confused me and I think some other devs, too. 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 <VOLUME_ID> +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 -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
