Hello,
I'm following a tutorial for this, and it's awesome, but one of the things they didn't mention is which format of image to download between qcow2, raw, and tar.xz.
These are my choices:
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My VM storage is local on the Proxmox node. It's a ZFS mirror on a pair of NVME. The storage itself is thin provisioned. Space is not a concern.
When I make a new VM manually (with no template or Cloud-Init), my only option for saving VM disks is "Raw", but I'm not sure how relevant...
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I'm following a tutorial for this, and it's awesome, but one of the things they didn't mention is which format of image to download between qcow2, raw, and tar.xz.
These are my choices:

My VM storage is local on the Proxmox node. It's a ZFS mirror on a pair of NVME. The storage itself is thin provisioned. Space is not a concern.
When I make a new VM manually (with no template or Cloud-Init), my only option for saving VM disks is "Raw", but I'm not sure how relevant...
Read more