Downloading ISO using "Download from URL"

[CapitalA]

Novice question, with my apologies....

I have a Proxmox host with some ISO images on it that I would like to download. I am trying to use the "Download from URL" feature, but I am not sure what this expects in terms of my inputs.

I have a URL button that says "Enter URL to Download". This has a red box around it, and if I click the "Query URL" button I get the following:

"Parameter verification failed. (400) url: value does not match the regex pattern"

I have no idea what this should be or what regex pattern this is looking for, I just want to download the file. This happens on every ISO on the host. I've tried looking around for insight and find a lot of unrelated threads and other folks saying that this tool works great, I just can't seem to figure it out.

What should happen here? Am I supposed to click "Query URL" and then get an actual URL? Or am I supposed to enter some kind of regex?

Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you!

 

[celemine1gig]

This function is intended for putting an online URL to an (mostly installer) ISO file in there.
It then queries for a valid URL and downloads the file to the "/var/lib/vz/template/iso" folder for later usage on VMs, via virtual optical drives.

I honestly do not know, what exactly it is, that you were intending to achieve. But I can only guess, that it was something different.

 

[EricPerl]

My guess is that the OP wants to retrieve ISOs stored on PVE (for whatever reason). You gave him the storage location. He can use scp...

 

[Fantu]

I also saw issue with "Query URL" with link for download some iso, the workaround is to don't press "Query URL" but wrote the file name manually.

 

[CapitalA]

Yes, I'm trying to download ISOs that are currently on a Proxmox server.

In VMware I can just go to a datastore and download the file as expected. Is that not what this function is for? Is it the opposite? (Download a file TO my proxmox storage FROM an external address?)

If that's the case, what's the right way to download files that already on my PVE?

 

[Fantu]

The iso download function works, what I noticed that does not work with some links is the "query url" button, in those cases as a workaround you have to close and reopen the iso download window, insert the link and then manually insert the file name (e.g: test.iso) and download, be careful and do not click "query url" or it gives an error and then even if you manually write the name it does not work.

It would be good to document or improve this case so as to put a warning instead of this error and to notify to manually enter the file name.

 

[EricPerl]

Yes, I'm trying to download ISOs that are currently on a Proxmox server.

In VMware I can just go to a datastore and download the file as expected. Is that not what this function is for? Is it the opposite? (Download a file TO my proxmox storage FROM an external address?)

If that's the case, what's the right way to download files that already on my PVE?

I've never used it but yes, this download button appears to allow the node to download directly from a remote host (instead of the managing client).

You can use scp to retrieve the ISOs from PVE:
scp username@pvenode:/var/lib/vz/template/iso/filename localfilename