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Imported image gets status: Disabled

edited Jan 27, 2026 2:38PM in Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered ✓

Hi,

Trying to import an .img disk from an PCA x8 to an x10. This is the steps:

Convert the the offline disk (made a copy from the shutdown vm in x8, the server boots fine on the x8):
qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 0004fb0000120000ae731db01a176945.img output.QCOW2

then

tar zcf MyImage.oci image_metadata.json output.QCOW2

checked using parted that BIOS is the way:

{
"version": 2,
"externalLaunchOptions": {
"firmware": "BIOS",
"networkType": "PARAVIRTUALIZED",
"bootVolumeType": "PARAVIRTUALIZED",
"remoteDataVolumeType": "PARAVIRTUALIZED",
"localDataVolumeType": "PARAVIRTUALIZED",
"launchOptionsSource": "CUSTOM",
"pvAttachmentVersion": 1,
"pvEncryptionInTransitEnabled": false,
"consistentVolumeNamingEnabled": false
},
"imageCapabilityData": null,
"imageCapsFormatVersion": null,
"operatingSystem": "Oracle Linux",
"operatingSystemVersion": "8.10"
}

Then I upload it using OCI CLI:

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