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VaTo

Reputation: 3098

How to import a OVA file to proxmox

I'm having some trouble trying to import an ova image to my proxmox server. I followed the steps of extracting the ova file and then converted the vmdk file to a qcow2 file with : 

qemu-img convert -f vmdk RADIUSdesk-2016-4-0-disk1.vmdk  -O qcow2 qcowdisk.qcow2

but according to many pages now I have to copy that file to the VM directory e.g.: 

mv qcowdisk.qcow2 /var/lib/vz/images/115/vm-115-disk-1.qcow2

the problem is that even though I created the VM 115 the directory "115" doesn't exist, so I'm suspecting that this is a way to do it with probably the version 4 of proxmox but not 5, which is the one I have. Could anyone please help me what do I have to do in the last step?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 26060

Answers (1)

patrick_
patrick_

Reputation: 166

Proxmox includes qm importdisk as command.

Extract your ova:

tar -xvf *.ova

Create a new VM without harddisks.

Import Your harddisks like this: (targetvmid is the vmnumber)

qm importdisk targetvmid disk001.vmdk local -format qcow2

Upvotes: 10

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