Fingers crossed man! 
Iāve gotta shoot, but hereās rooting for ya!
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So it worked fine, everything seems to be there, but the import disk function doesnāt seem to work, and thereās no option with qm importdisk to add it to the vm, I think.
gonna look into creating a straight up vm with the disk image and transferring from there.
Okay, so it seems the transfer to the new pool was irrelevant, as simple addition of the disk to another vm on the same pool isnāt straight forward at least. What I have done based on the send | recv transfer did work though to get it to the new pool, so if anyone is trolling this thread for that info it worked.
All of my problems are that even if I have snapshot of that it doesnāt seem to want to make a VM with it. thatās what Iām working on at this point.
Qemu does see it fyi.
That is odd, because receiving a snapshot should create a dataset.
So I guess the issue remaining is loading a received dataset to a vm?
Well, I got nuthing helpful to suggest 
My next attempt will be to find the configuration xml for the old vm and editing and slapping that bitch in.
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Welp, data recovered. Dunno why it worked this time but just adding a line in the qemu-server vm configs with the line
scsi1: local-zfs:vm-120-disk1 did the jobā¦Which means I could have just done that and been done with this alreadyā¦
Also note I tried adding the ,size=X to the end and it did not like that at all.
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That is odd, but well done! And thanks for posting for future seekers 