[SOLVED] Download templates LXC containers

[chencho]

I cannot find any Ubuntu 18 LTS or 19 template

https://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated

Is any new location??

 

[oguz]

hi,

we don't use openvz for containers anymore, we use lxc.

you can use our tool pveam to fetch templates, or you can go to http://uk.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ and get the rootfs from there and create a new CT with it.

 

[chencho]

:/ i need to update myself

 

[chencho]

For the future...

pveam update
pveam available
pveam download local ubuntu-18.10-standard_18.10-2_amd64.tar.gz

 

[masteryoda]

hi,

we don't use openvz for containers anymore, we use lxc.

you can use our tool pveam to fetch templates, or you can go to http://uk.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ and get the rootfs from there and create a new CT with it.

Hi, i know this is kinda old, but how do i do this exactly? is there a guide to download from linuxcontainers.org?

 

[oguz]

Hi, i know this is kinda old, but how do i do this exactly? is there a guide to download from linuxcontainers.org?

you can simply browse to that link and use wget or similar to download the rootfs.tar.xz file of the container you wish.

for example the latest archlinux image: https://uk.images.linuxcontainers.o...nt/amd64/default/20210703_04:18/rootfs.tar.xz

 

[damo2929]

just want to nudge this thread to says images are at
https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/

as this is the only URL that I can see them at.

 

[Trozpent]

Apologies for the newbie question. Only just discovered Proxmox on my new journey for a home lab.
When downloading these images are they just a small Linux environment and it is up to me to install the app I want to run in it. So for example if wanted to host a Gitea in a container and downloaded the https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/debian/bookworm/amd64/default/20230714_05:25/rootfs.tar.xz file, I would load that as my container, install Gitea and done?
I only ask as I tried the gitlab one from the provided list by turnkey but it was never stable (and probably overkill for my needs, it's so RAM hungry).

 

[damo2929]

you would download it to the storage you have enabled for container templates
/mnt/pve/<storage>/template/cache

rename rootfs.tar.xz to be the name you want for the template ie debian_bookworm_20230714.tar.xz

you can then use it as a container template as normal.

 

[tiahs]

new storage :
/var/lib/vz/template/cache
rename in/for:
https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ubuntu/focal/amd64/default/20241025_07:42/

 

[UdoB]

rename in/for:
https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ubuntu/focal/amd64/default/20241025_07:42/

Really? Focal???

If you do not have a really good reason for this go for Noble - if you actually want to go that tarball-route at all...: https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ubuntu/

 

[tiahs]

No really!
This is, redirect link for many container.
Thk, @UdoB !

 

[Johannes S]

If you do not have a really good reason for this go for Noble - if you actually want to go that tarball-route at all...: https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ubuntu/

Isn't tarball the only available method to deploy an lxc in proxmox? https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pct.html#pct_container_images says, that these images are always tarballs. I'm asking since I would prefer something like qcow too.

 

[tiahs]

In testing for a new version noble 24.01. The version with bug's of PVE 8.2.4, of update.
Is very gooooddd, @UdoB !

 

[UdoB]

Isn't tarball the only available method to deploy an lxc in proxmox?

May be, probably. I am not an lxc user, so I have no reliable overview over the details...

 

[Johannes S]

May be, probably. I am not an lxc user, so I have no reliable overview over the details...

It might also be, that Incus (from the same team like linux-containers) or lxc support but it's not available in PVE at the moment.