NFS ISO location shows no files

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nocternal

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Hi there,

I'm looking at Proxmox VE as a replacement for my home lab hosts - seeing as what Broadcom appears to be doing with VMWare.

I've got two old PCs installed with PVE 8.1.3 right now and changed over to the no-subscription repositories. I've also created a cluster between the two hosts - and that appears to be working fine as well. Everything works as I expect it too - at least comparing to my ESXi, HyperV and one headless virtualbox hypervisor.

The only thing I can't figure out it how to get my ISOs to appear within the NFS share on PVE. I've added the NFS share, and set content type to 'ISO Image' and it mounts correctly. Using the shell shows all the files within the NFS mount point. When I go and create a VM it will not list anything for this newly-added entry.

I have also tried manually importing an ISO to the local filesystem. Once I've inported an ISO it works fine.

I have roughly 500GB of ISOs and have no intention of importing them all into PVE? I must be missing something really simple here?
 

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Hmm, forgot to mention in the original post (oopsie) that the NFS share is read-only. I run sha512 sums on it once a month to make sure they are unspoiled. This explains why I saw no new folders on there (and don't want them either). This share is being used by other hypervisors right now just fine.

This might a show-stopper for me. Don't really want to have to adhere to some new file structure. Just let me pick from a list of files/folder. This is how all other hypervisors work anyways. I'll do some more reading and see if I can make this doable.
 
Yeah - I was going down the symlink route when I look at the documentation. I've created a symlink to point template/iso back to root of NFS share. Now files show up -- but only files in the root directory - what about directories? I have a few ISOs in the root of the share - most are sorted into directories for OS, Appliances, Apps, etc...
 

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Hmm... seems kind of 'janky' for lack of a better term. Why was this ever implemented this way? This is EXACTLY what folders were invented for, like 60 years ago! You sort items in these things called folders, right? /s You've re-invented the wheel here. None of the other hypervisors have this kind of restriction.

Not trying to beat up on Proxmox - I really like the interface and the rest of the system itself. Was even considering paying the subscription once I'd tested everything out.

Granted - I'm in the large minority here - keeping such old copies of ISOs around for security testing, etc. It comes in handy and storage is cheap.

Thanks for all the quick replies though. Really appreciated. I'll stick with the devil I know, as it were, for now. I don't need any advanced features within ESXi. Maybe once I'm up to keeping a script around to update or expose select ISOs to the correct PVE location(s) I'll consider switching.
 
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