How to update ISO storage location content

[lxer]

Hi, after years I started again with Proxmox. I successfully uploaded some ISOs via the web UI. However, since it does not appear to support drag & drop, I uploaded the remaining IMGs, ISOs, etc. via scp. Now, however, they are not displayed in the web UI.
Is there a filter that hides certain file types, or do I have to tell Proxmox that I have added files under its radar (as was/is the case with libvirt)?

Thanks
Olaf

 

[Johannes S]

Where did you save your iso images on the host?

 

[gfngfn256]

Put them in any location, that is defined correctly as an ISO location within the PVE storage backend, & it should show up. I do this all the time.

 

[lxer]

Imo all what I did was/is correct:

root@pve:~# !29
cd /var/lib/vz/template/iso/
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/template/iso# ls -la
total 15849048
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       4096 Sep  3 18:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root       4096 Sep  3 17:13 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  119383444 Sep  3 18:53 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-initramfs.x86_64.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        131 Sep  3 18:53 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-initramfs.x86_64.img-CHECKSUM
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1009778688 Sep  3 18:54 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-iso.x86_64.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        125 Sep  3 18:54 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-iso.x86_64.iso-CHECKSUM
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        125 Sep  3 18:54 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-iso.x86_64.iso.sha256
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   17525096 Sep  3 18:54 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-kernel.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        124 Sep  3 18:54 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-kernel.x86_64-CHECKSUM
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  863625728 Sep  3 18:54 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-rootfs.x86_64.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        128 Sep  3 18:54 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-live-rootfs.x86_64.img-CHECKSUM
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  957679092 Sep  3 18:55 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-metal.x86_64.raw.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        125 Sep  3 18:55 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-metal.x86_64.raw.xz-CHECKSUM
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  953310832 Sep  3 18:56 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-proxmoxve.x86_64.qcow2.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        131 Sep  3 18:56 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-proxmoxve.x86_64.qcow2.xz-CHECKSUM
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  953313472 Sep  3 18:56 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-qemu.x86_64.qcow2.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        126 Sep  3 18:56 fedora-coreos-42.20250803.3.0-qemu.x86_64.qcow2.xz-CHECKSUM
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2925920256 Sep  3 18:42 Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-42-1.1.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2398523392 Sep  3 18:44 Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1119232 Sep  3 18:57 netboot.xyz.efi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    2064384 Sep  3 18:57 netboot.xyz.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    2400256 Sep  3 18:57 netboot.xyz.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     383550 Sep  3 18:57 netboot.xyz.lkrn
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     294912 Sep  3 18:57 netboot.xyz-snp.efi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6023999488 Sep  3 18:48 SW_DVD9_Win_Pro_10_22H2.1_64BIT_German_Pro_Ent_EDU_N_MLF_X23-31727.ISO
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        144 Sep  3 18:48 SW_DVD9_Win_Pro_10_22H2.1_64BIT_German_Pro_Ent_EDU_N_MLF_X23-31727.sha256
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root        570 Sep  3 18:48 SW_DVD9_Win_Pro_10_22H2.1_64BIT_German_Pro_Ent_EDU_N_MLF_X23-31727.txt

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I restarted the pc, without success.

 

[gfngfn256]

without success

Untrue. Every ISO / IMAGE (total of 8) is correctly listed. The PVE GUI will list all the available ISO's in that directory - NOT all the files.

 

[Kingneutron]

Go back into the templates dir and delete or move all the useless files, e.g. *CHECKSUM and *sha256

You may also have to uncompress the .xz file(s)

Midnight Commander can help with this, it is a text-mode 2-pane file manager. apt install mc

 

[lxer]

Ok, so it has directory filter for *.iso and *.img, where can I extend it, where is it documented? A quick search on google failed.

 

[gfngfn256]

Ok, so it has directory filter for *.iso and *.img, where can I extend it, where is it documented?

I don't know what your end game is, but if you honestly know that a particular file is a true ISO image (i.e.: it is a fully bootable image as-is) then just add an .iso or .img extension to the filename.

Those files with .raw.xz extension, are most likely compressed files - so not bootable as-is. Decompress them as necessary.

 

[lxer]

Thank you. My end-game is to try several install methods using UEFI and net boot ways - for VM and bare metal. I try my options using proxmox these days. My idea was to host all images inside the ISO folder, which doesn't seems to be the way. Preferable CoreOS, since ClearLinux and RancherOS are dead (SUSE Rancher for private use imo) as I it used to.