[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.
>