Hi,
Just to confirm, as I tested this. The process is very simple and these pre-created templates from the OpenVZ download site do indeed work 'perfectly well' with ProxVE. (see below).
Hope this helps,
--Tim
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Login as root via SSH to your ProxVE host
CD to directory where OpenVZ template cache tar.gz files are stored
Download via WGET the desired template
cd /var/lib/vz/template/cache
wget
http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz
Capture of what we see:
prox1:/var/lib/vz/template/cache# wget
http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz
--04:53:49--
http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz
=> `ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz'
Resolving download.openvz.org... 64.131.90.11
Connecting to download.openvz.org|64.131.90.11|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 112,530,393 (107M) [application/x-gzip]
100%[=================================================================================================================>] 112,530,393 502.80K/s ETA 00:00
04:57:20 (521.83 KB/s) - `ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz' saved [112530393/112530393]
prox1:/var/lib/vz/template/cache# ls -la
total 417884
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-12 04:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-06 14:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130551267 2009-01-17 16:45 centos-5-standard_5.2-1_i386.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184384835 2009-01-20 07:45 debian-5.0-wordpress_2.7-1_i386.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112530393 2009-05-19 12:26 ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz
prox1:/var/lib/vz/template/cache#
(Note on this ProxVE host I had previously downloaded via ProxVE web interface, the templates for CentOS 5 and Debian-Wordpress; it is only the ubuntu template just downloaded now manually / directly via wget)
Once this is complete, you will see the new template listed as an option in the drop-box when you "create" a "Container - OpenVZ" based Virtual Host. I did create a vhost with the ubuntu template and it work fine / normally / as expected.