CANT proceed creating lxc because "next" is greyed out

[iamghost]

Hello i am a newbie here,

upon update&upgrade a new install, i continue to download lxc templates, then tried to use web UI to create a container but failed. problem is, NO MATTER WHAT I DO(all required fields have been filled). on the general page, the "next" button simply not working, i CANT proceed. I even pasted rsa_id key to the ssh public key field, although it seems you dont have to, still, nothing worked.

On the cli, here is what i tried:

pveam list local
NAME SIZE
local:vztmpl/debian-12-standard_12.2-1_amd64.tar.zst 120.29MB
local:vztmpl/ubuntu-24.04-standard_24.04-2_amd64.tar.zst 135.03MB

root@pve:~# pct create 100 local:vztmpl/debian-12-standard_12.2-1_amd64.tar.gz
400 Parameter verification failed.
storage: storage 'local' does not support container directories
pct create <vmid> <ostemplate> [OPTIONS]
root@pve:~#

unfortunately as you can see, i cannot even create a single container using both web UI and Cli.

any suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated, thank you

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

for the UI filling password(+repeating it) or adding a public SSH key should be enough, could you post a screenshot of the filled out form? Are any error displayed in the browser JS console(F12 > Console)?

For the CLI, by default local storage is used by the pct create[1] command, but in your case it doesn't allow containers to be saved on it

storage: storage 'local' does not support container directories

you can change that under "Datacenter" > "Storage" > "Local" > "Content".

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pct.1.html