OpenVZ 7 supports both KVM VM and OpenVZ containers. For a customer, we were trying to import a CentOS 7 based KVM VM to OpenVZ 7 KVM VM. But the problem is, the VM was created in RAW format. But OpenVZ 7 KVM does not support RAW files for KVM, it supports QCOW2. Hence, we had to first convert the RAW image into a QCOW2 image first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to convert RAW KVM VM Image to QCOW2 VM Image<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To convert raw to qcow2, you may use qemu-img kvm tool. This tool comes with the KVM setup. Let’s say your raw image is ‘harddisk.hdd.raw’, and you would like to produce a qcow2 image, called ‘harddisk.hdd’. To do that, you may run the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Make sure, you are running this script from the place where you have the harddisk.hdd.raw stored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Replace the disk in OpenVZ 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In our case, our files are stored under \/vz\/vmprivate\/. Under this folder of OpenVZ, you would find folders with VM id. In our case, it was under the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also see the list of VMs UUID, by typing the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, stop the VM<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, all you need to do, is to replace the ‘harddisk.hdd’ with the one we had converted<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, start the VM, and you should be good to go<\/p>\n\n\n\n OpenVZ 7 supports both KVM VM and OpenVZ containers. For a customer, we were trying to import a CentOS 7 based KVM VM to OpenVZ 7 KVM VM. But the problem is, the VM was created in RAW format. But OpenVZ 7 KVM does not support RAW files for KVM, it supports QCOW2. Hence, we … Continue reading “How to Add RAW Image into An Existing OpenVZ 7 VM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[606],"tags":[608,159,607,609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 \/root\/harddisk.hdd.raw \/root\/harddisk.hdd.qcow2<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\/vz\/vmprivate\/9d07cfef-42bf-4fbe-ac6a-7af9c85c9475<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
prlctl list --all<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
prlctl stop 9d07cfef-42bf-4fbe-ac6a-7af9c85c9475<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
cd \/vz\/vmprivate\/9d07cfef-42bf-4fbe-ac6a-7af9c85c9475\nmv harddisk.hdd harddisk.hdd_backup\nmv \/root\/harddisk.hdd.qcow2 harddisk.hdd<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
prlctl start 9d07cfef-42bf-4fbe-ac6a-7af9c85c9475<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"