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Proxmox does not have native support for an OVA template which is

surprising considering it’s 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

file

uploaded to

the

Proxmox

server; you

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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.

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.

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.

Although you can run a VMDK file in Proxmox, it’s 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.

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

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:

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

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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”

31-AUG-2014 AT 13:43

Command ‘tar – my.ovf’ should rather read ‘tar xvf my.ova’

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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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20-NOV-2014 AT 15:05

Good spot – thank you.

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