* Please make sure you use the right storage by using the -storage command line switch.
This should point to a storage where you want to store the container for instance
pct create 103 /var/lib/vz/template/cache/debian-8.0-standard_8.0-1_amd64.tar.gz -storage pvevgibsd
* Also which template are you using when getting the error you mentionned ?
root@Giga-VPS-1:~# pct create 123 /var/lib/vz/template/cache/debian-8.0-standard_8.4-1_amd64.tar.gz -storage local-lvm
Logical volume "vm-123-disk-1" created.
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 1048576 4k blocks and 262144 inodes
Filesystem UUID: da544bdf-486d-4feb-b63d-bea1583f9df7
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Multiple mount protection is enabled with update interval 5 seconds.
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
extracting archive '/var/lib/vz/template/cache/debian-8.0-standard_8.4-1_amd64.tar.gz'
Total bytes read: 533678080 (509MiB, 135MiB/s)
Detected container architecture: amd64
Creating SSH host key 'ssh_host_rsa_key' - this may take some time ...
Creating SSH host key 'ssh_host_key' - this may take some time ...
Creating SSH host key 'ssh_host_ecdsa_key' - this may take some time ...
Creating SSH host key 'ssh_host_ed25519_key' - this may take some time ...
Creating SSH host key 'ssh_host_dsa_key' - this may take some time ...
root@Giga-VPS-1:~#
???