sparkus Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Hello helpful peoples! I recently did a motherboard and processor upgrade, and during the process my VM got lost. I can still find the image on /mnt/cache/domains/Windows 10/vdisk1.img But nothing shows up in the VM menu. Any ideas on how to recover it? I'd rather not rebuild it because there was some valuable data there. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 10 hours ago, sparkus said: But nothing shows up in the VM menu. You need the previous libvirt.img, see if it's still there, also you should always have a backup of that file. Quote Link to comment
sparkus Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 hey @jorgeB. Thanks for letting me know that. The libvirt.img is in the cache/system/libvirt folder. Thanks for steering me towards that. Can you point me towards a way to recover? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 If that is the old libvirt.img just copy it on top of current one, VM services must be stopped first. Quote Link to comment
sparkus Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 so basically set up one from scratch? and then copy the old one on top of that location? Quote Link to comment
sparkus Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 So just in case anyone else is frantically searching for solutions.....here's how it got solved. I copied the files /mnt/cache/domains/Windows 10/vdisk1.img and cache/system/libvirt/libvirt.img to a safe place. I then created a new VM, with the Windows 10 install disk location, and all of the other bells and whistles arranged. The VM picked up the old libvirt.img, and basically just booted up the old VM. Many thanks to @JorgeB for his help! Quote Link to comment
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