Hello everyone! I have a couple of VMs that I created in 25.04.0 as instances. According to the guide from here , “.block” volumes should not be moved. The problem is that my VMs, created in the Instances period only have block volumes at the pool/.ix-virt/virtual-machines path. How can I convert th…

I’m trying to run down this issue. Can you give me a little more about the history of your VMs? Were they migrated from 24.10 into 25.04 or created natively in 25.04?

The VMs were created natively on 25.04.0 and the root disks of these VMs are now holding all my data (which, I assume, are represented by the block volumes).

Thanks. [image] Need help migrating Container to VM prior to upgrading to 24.10 Apps and Virtualization This fits with what I’m thinking is happening with this and a few other users who have similar issues. I have a feeling that when this was documented it was…

The updated procedure is being published now, but basically I believe you should be good to follow the original steps and commands, just use the *.block volume instead of the custom/default_*

I can confirm that this is working. Thanks!

Hi, On top of data/.ix-virt/virtual-machines/.block I have data/.ix-virt/images/*.block, Should I also move them to data/vms/*.block? Here is the command output. root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# sudo zfs list -t volume -r -d 10 data NAME …

I believe the ones in /images/ are just local copies of the image used to install the VM. They can be ignored.

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DjP-iX October 31, 2025, 6:14pm 4

Thanks.

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