Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Managing disk images

A Proxmox virtual image file can be managed from both the WebGUI and CLI. The WebGUI allows the administrator to use the add, resize (increase only), move, throttling, and delete options, as shown in the following screenshot:

To make any changes to a virtual disk image file, the image must be selected first from the Hardware tab, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Virtual machine image files can also be manipulated using CLI commands. The following table shows a few examples of the most common commands used to delete, convert, and resize an image file:

Command	Function
#qemu-img create -f <type> -o <filename> ...