Proxmox - Import OVA¶
A random thing I recently came across while testing out LibreNMS-
I discovered they have a published .ova, which I wanted to import into Proxmox. However, proxmox as of this post, does not have a easy option to support importing this.
This- is a quick post, containing the commands you need, to import the ova.
Steps¶
1. Download the .ova¶
First- download the ova onto one of your proxmox nodes.
wget https://github.com/librenms/packer-builds/releases/download/23.11.0/librenms-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-vmware.ova
2. Extract the .ova, into a .ovf¶
A .ova is just a tar archive, with a few extra things.
tar -xf librenms-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-vmware.ova
3. Import the .ovf¶
The format of the command-
qm importovf VM-ID OVF-FILE YOUR-STORAGE
135 is the next free ID I have, so I will use this.
We will use the .ovf we got from extracting the .ova above.
Finally- we need to pick the target storage for the new VM.
If- you don't know which storage, or the name of your storage, you can use pvesm status to list the available storages.
root@kube02:~# pvesm status
Name Type Status Total Used Available %
GameStorage zfspool active 942931968 294817116 648114852 31.27%
ISOs nfs active 15512513536 3881544704 11630968832 25.02%
Unraid nfs active 15512513536 3881544704 11630968832 25.02%
ceph-block rbd active 3670495077 571569765 3098925312 15.57%
local dir active 98497780 11778920 81669312 11.96%
I will be choosing ceph-block storage.
Here is the resulting command
qm importovf 135 librenms-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-vmware.ovf ceph-block
root@kube02:~# qm importovf 135 librenms-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-vmware.ovf ceph-block
transferred 0.0 B of 40.0 GiB (0.00%)
transferred 409.6 MiB of 40.0 GiB (1.00%)
transferred 819.2 MiB of 40.0 GiB (2.00%)
transferred 1.2 GiB of 40.0 GiB (3.00%)
...
transferred 40.0 GiB of 40.0 GiB (100.00%)
transferred 40.0 GiB of 40.0 GiB (100.00%)
After this is done, you will have a new VM created. You can view and manage this VM using the web interface.