Installing VM from ISO on USB Flash

[matthysdt]

Hi all, I'm new to Proxmox.

I'm trying to install a VM from an ISO on a USB flash drive plugged into my physical server.

But I'm unable to register the device's NTFS partition as storage as I get the below error.

Here I mounted the drive



Getting this error:


I tried unmounting and remounting with -o umask=000 and I also tried chmod, but the device remains read-only.




I then copied the ISO file over to another storage location that I noticed was already mounted at /var/lib/vz as "local", but thie ISO doesn't show up in the drop down list when I create the VM.







I also mounted my NAS as a CIFS and placed the ISO in the correct directory, but got the same result as above, the ISO doesn't show up in the drop-down, eventhough the ISO file is definitely there.

Not sure where I'm going wrong, can it be that Windows11 isn't supported yet? I doubt since I get the same result if I choose the OS type as "other".

Some noob advice will be appreciated!

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

copying the to file /var/lib/vz/template/iso/ should make it show up in the dropdown.

 

[matthysdt]

Hey,

copying the to file /var/lib/vz/template/iso/ should make it show up in the dropdown.

Thank you Hannes, the /template/iso directory structure was the part I overlooked.

Any suggestions on getting the to work via the USB flash?

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Adding the USB Device to the VM and not selecting an ISO when creating the VM should work.

 

[Cfgtech]

Adding the USB Device to the VM and not selecting an ISO when creating the VM should work.
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Totally awesome thank you that worked perfectly!

 

[c.o.h.]

I strongly recommend you to use a tool such as ventoy or easy2boot for the pendrive and boot your empty VM with it. This way you can install almost all operating systems via corresponding ISO on your usb drive.