Hope this helps someone trying to attach/import a .qcow2 image into ProxMox ...:
03-29-2024-ProxMox-QCOW2-Image-Location-Issue-Resolved.txt ...:
Regarding Gerard's great ProxMox Tutorial ( part 2 )....
Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab - Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm_olWLLCqo&t=8s
Hey Guys, in reference to the tutorial above for the Cybersecuirty lab setup, I got hung up on the Metasploitable.qcow2 file implementation in ProxMox.
In Short I had to wrap my head around ProxMox's Storage types of where and how images are stored ( i.e. File Based or Device Based ).
The Table 1 Diagram in the link below shows the distinc Storage types. The two main Storage Types for the storage.cfg file were dir and lvm/lvm-thin.
I kept trying to get the Metalsploitable.qcow2 file to work on the device type storage lvm and lvm-thin, until I finally realized I couldn't get the import command to work. So I pursued the file storage type option ( because as table-1 explains it is an actual file to be stored as the image ).
Although I pasted Fix 1 and Fix 2 below, what was really only needed was to insert 'images' in the content type for dir: local and it worked!!!
Location of the actual file Meta*.qcow2 was the following path ... { /var/lib/vz/images/204 }
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html
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File Based ...:
Fix:1...
/etc/pve/storage.cfg
dir: local
path /var/lib/vz
content images,vztmpl,iso,backup
*** LVM and LVM-THIN section removed for brevity in the storage.cfg file. ***
Fix:2...
ide0: file=local:204/Metasploitable.qcow2,size=32G
*** Again this is mentioned in the video already,
but wanted to show both sides /etc/pve/storage.cfg and my actual VM's config file /etc/pve/qemu-server/204.conf
Device Based ...:
Tried this link below of importing .qcow2 guide images into ProxMox
*** But couldn't get it to work?? ***
https://ostechnix.com/import-qcow2-into-proxmox/
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Location of this File to Edit that will Fix the .qcow2 Image-Location-Issue ...:
/etc/pve/storage.cfg
dir: local
path /var/lib/vz
content images,vztmpl,iso,backup
lvmthin: local-lvm
thinpool data
vgname pve
content images,rootdir
lvm: MyExtra-500gb
vgname MyExtra-500gb
content images,rootdir
nodes pve
shared 0
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Location of this file to Edit that will also Fix the .qcow2 Image-Location_issue... :
*** Same as Gerard's Video, but showing for emphasis and completion of .qcow2 implementation of the Metasploit.qcow2 file. ***
/etc/pve/qemu-server/204.conf
boot: order=ide0;ide2;net0
cores: 1
cpu: x86-64-v2-AES
ide0: file=local:204/Metasploitable.qcow2,size=32G
ide1: local-lvm:vm-204-disk-1,size=8G
ide2: none,media=cdrom
ide3: MyExtra-500gb:vm-204-disk-0,size=8G
memory: 2048
meta: creation-qemu=8.1.5,ctime=1711496195
name: prod-metasploit2
net0: virtio=BC:24:11:F3:AC:B7,bridge=vmbr2,firewall=1,tag=10
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=6fcdbe6b-c32e-4195-b03a-2c374d2b81e6
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 4f1ea3db-78c7-4f99-8d5f-478d1aa4395b
03-29-2024-ProxMox-QCOW2-Image-Location-Issue-Resolved
