The literal usage of "qcow2+size" as well as what the command is supposed to do
has confused users [0].
[0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/trying-to-convert-raw-disk-to-vmdk-using-pvesm.70046/
pvesm path <VOLUME_ID>
+Exporting the volume `local:103/vm-103-disk-0.qcow2` to the file `target`.
+This is mostly used internally with `pvesm import`.
+The stream format qcow2+size is different to the qcow2 format.
+Consequently, the exported file cannot simply be attached to a VM.
+This also holds for the other formats.
+
+ pvesm export local:103/vm-103-disk-0.qcow2 qcow2+size target --with-snapshots 1
+
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