Proxmox Qcow2 Import

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Introduction

For those who aren’t familiar with the concept. Different hypervisors use different file formats to represent VM images and due to the fact that Proxmox uses Qemu (Quick Emulator)/KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) to provide virtualization, it in turn uses Qcow2 (Qemu Copy-On-Write) as the storage file format for virtual machines data. The process to move Qcow2 files into Proxmox may not be as straight forward as it is on VMware, but its still a relatively painless process.

Qcow2 on Thaddeus Koenig

Proxmox Qcow2 Import

Introduction#

Introduction