KVM Debian 12

[Fred Brown]

Hello everyone!
I need help with a KVM virtual machine on Linux Debian 12.
I was working inside a Windows 10 VM when the power suddenly went out and my computer shut down. Since then, I haven’t been able to start the VM, even though it contains important files I need. I didn’t have time to make a backup because I never anticipated this could happen.
When I open Virtual Machine Manager, my VM no longer appears in the list. If I try to mount the virtual disk, I can’t open it—even though the win10.qcow2 file is still in the folder.
Please let me know how I can get the VM running again or at least extract the files from the disk.

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Welcome to DirectAdmin forums. Here we discuss things related to DirectAdmin only. And DirectAdmin does not support Windows, since that we can not help you to recover KVM with Windows.

And I believe you don't use DirectAdmin, so you'd better try your luck on specialised forums.

 

[Fred Brown]

Thanks, I’ve posted about this on another forum dedicated to Linux. There are already some suggestions that seem worth trying to resolve the issue. If I manage to sort it out, I’ll share the solution here — it might be useful for someone else too.