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Creating a snapshot for a proxmox VM is not possible either in the GUI or CLI

I'm trying to make a snapshot of one of my VMs via the GUI but the button to creat the snapshot is greyed out, so I wanted to try and do it using the CLI so I could see any helpful output and I got this: 

 pct snapshot 106 "testing"
Configuration file 'nodes/pve01/lxc/106.conf' does not exist

the list of my VMS:

qm list
 VMID NAME                 STATUS     MEM(MB)    BOOTDISK(GB) PID            
 106 TestingServer        running    1024              32.00 23131

I'm not sure what's this about so I was trying to see if somebody here could please give me a hand, I would appreciate it.

Solution

  • I have the same issue on some of the volumes I've attached. So basically, there's a very specific requirement for the storage type you need to have in order to make a snapshot of VM. The list below has the requirements and you can find more information here https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage#_storage_types

    Storage type requirements

    Hope this helps.

    You can check the storage type by going to Datacenter > Storage

    Once storage is created you cannot change the type of that storage.