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Proxmox does not have native support for an OVA template which is
surprising considering its the open format for creating packaged
virtual machines, or virtual appliances as they are often referred.
We can still get an OVA template running in Proxmox but it will take
a little bit of work to transform it into a functional VM.
First off, lets
get the OVA
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can do this
using SCP
or the
Proxmox
web GUI. If you use the Proxmox web GUI you will need to rename
the OVA to end in a iso extension and upload it as a ISO
image content. Depending on the size of the OVA file and the
bandwidth you have available, it may take a while to upload the file.
The file will then be available in the dump folder in the selected
storage.
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SSH onto your Proxmox server and locate the OVA file. An OVA file
is simply a tar file containing an image file and some configuration for
things like CPU, RAM, etc. Run the tar command to extract the
components of the OVA file onto your file system.

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The output will be two or more files one will be an OVF file which
contains the settings and configuration of the virtual machine and
one or more files will be VMDKs which are the disk images of the
virtual machine.

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Although you can run a VMDK file in Proxmox, its recommended to

use qcow2 which is the default file format for Proxmox virtual
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machines. Run the VMDK file through the converter not this can
take a while with large files.

1 qemu-img convert -f vmdk myvm-disk1.vmdk -O qcow2

myvm-disk1.qcow2

We now need to get the image into a VM with some hardware so that
we can begin to use it. This is where things get tricky the OVF file is
not compatible with Proxmox and needs to be manually understood.
The principle here is we are going to use the Proxmox web GUI to
create a VM and replace the empty disk image which is created with

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our recently converted qcow2 image.

You can use vi to open the OVF file and understand some of the basic
settings which are required for the VM. Open the OVF file and look
for the following XML tags:

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OperatingSystemSection
VirtualHardwareSection
Network
StorageControllers
You should be able to get a rough idea of the requirements for the
KVM. In the Proxmox web GUI, click on Create VM and create a VM
which meets the requirements of the image you converted. Make
sure that you select qcow2 for the disk format. After
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clicking Finish an empty VM will be created in this example I used

local storage and VMID 101 so the disk images are stored in
/var/lib/vz/images/101.

Copy the previously converted qcow2 image over the existing image
be sure to overwrite the existing image otherwise your image will
not be used and KVM will try to start with a blank, empty image.

1 mv /tmp/myvm-disk1.qcow2
/var/lib/vz/image/101/vm-101-disk-1.qcow2

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Thats it you can now start up the image from the Proxmox web
GUI.

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3 THOUGHTS ON UPLOAD OVA TO PROXMOX/ KVM

Anonymous
31-AUG-2014 AT 13:43

Command tar my.ovf should rather read tar xvf my.ova

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David RIEHL
20-NOV-2014 AT 12:59

/usr/lib/vz/image/101/vm-101-disk-1.qcow2
should rather read /var/lib/vz/image/101/vm-101-disk-1.qcow2
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james.coyle
20-NOV-2014 AT 15:05

Good spot thank you.

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