Perpetual fail of MS Server 2022 creation

[JDMcQ-IDS]

I have been trying for several days to get Server 2022 installed on Proxmox. I followed the steps in the WIKI, and loaded all three drivers. and continued with the install. The files all load successfully and it sits for a while doing it's thing. Then I get the attached error. I rebuilt the VM this time with EUFI BIOS. No Luck.

There are too many combinations for me to test every one. I'm SURE somebody else must have hit this wall. Please throw me a line!
Thank you

 

[dcsapak]

this seems like it one these things
* broken windows iso
* broken storage
* too small disk

(it can of course be a different problem, best would be to post the vm config (qm config ID))

 

[JDMcQ-IDS]

Dominik:
Thank you for your response. Sorry for the long delay I wanted to test your response but was busy with my work.
It turns out it was a bad copy of the ISO. I did not suspect this because it is and ISO that I have used for a long time. It must have broken during the copy operation.
Which actually brings me to another point. The reason for copying in the first place. I have a few dozen ISOs in a folder. For a week or so I had been trying to get Proxmox to link to that repository. Let me browse through the tree, and access the desired ISO. Apparently this is impossible in Proxmox, despite my efforts. Is this something that might be possible in the future? I need a replacement for VMware for my customers, but I end up being their primary support (although I will always sell a PVE support agreement) since I support the entire application stack. My customers are familiar with VMware and want something they can easily manage.
I have to get to the point where I LIKE Proxmox, before I promote it.
Thank you for your help!!

 

[Supaman]

1) You can Upload ISO files to local storage
2) You can add a Network Share (i.e. SMB/NFS) via "Storage" and set the content type to "ISO Image"

 

[dcsapak]

Apparently this is impossible in Proxmox, despite my efforts. Is this something that might be possible in the future?

it's not available by browsing the datastore, and arbitrary paths will probably not be implemented for some time, but the storage can be configured to use different paths than the default one
with the 'content-dirs' option (cli only at the moment), see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_Directory#_configuration
(don't mind that the documentation is in the 'directory' storage section, this should apply to smb and nfs as well)

 

[JDMcQ-IDS]

I was able to accomplish a satisfactory resolution for the time being, by editing the storage.cfg. This gives me a folder, albeit flat, that I and others could manage the contents of.
Thank you