First time administrating a proxmox system (no RTFM for me) when I ran into an issue of being unable to delete a virtual machine. The issue itself may have been caused by me removing the storage before deleting the virtual machine.
The error message:
TASK ERROR: storage ‘proxmoxHDD’ does not exists
I attempted using the qm destroy <vmid> command and got the following error:
storage ‘<name of storage>’ does not exists
I was able to locate the configuration file under /etc/pve/qemu-server
Ran the following to delete the config
@proxmox1:/etc/pve/qemu-server# rm jermsmit-vm.conf @proxmox1:/etc/pve/qemu-server#
Moments later the web ui refreshed and the orphaned vm was gone
2 replies on “Proxmox – Unable to delete KVM Virtual Machine”
that didn’t work but removing the conf does remove it if the hard drive died and will not remove from the control panel.
cd /etc/pve/nodes/proxmox/qemu-server
rm 101.conf
change 101 to your vm id #
Thanks! Just ran in to this exact issue working with ProxMox today….