[SOLVED] Create a cloud init template without selecting the Linux distro?

[thusband]

I'd like to try different Linux distros in Proxmox. Is there a way to create a template but not select the cloud image? I'd like to be able to fire up the template and then add the distro cloud image. All the tutorials I've seen show the template for a specific distro. I'd like to try a half dozen or so distros and be able to choose the distro, spin it up quickly and if it's not for me remove it and spin up another one.

 

[mira]

No, a template is basically a complete VM that serves as a base, including the VM disk.
A template is required since not every cloud image works out of the box as we've seen in the past. Even just different daily builds of the same distribution can break things.

 

[thusband]

No, a template is basically a complete VM that serves as a base, including the VM disk.
A template is required since not every cloud image works out of the box as we've seen in the past. Even just different daily builds of the same distribution can break things.

Got it. Thanks, I thought that might be the case. Setting up different VMs is probably not hard after doing it a few times.