Before you can create a LXC container on a Proxmox virtualized environment, you need to download the template images first from an available list. You need to pre-download the images first befoe you can create new containers from them in the web ui.
From the docs here, there steps are (while ssh’d into your Proxmox server):
Update catalog of available templates:
pveam update
List the available templates:
root@pve:~# pveam available system alpine-3.3-default_20160427_amd64.tar.xz system alpine-3.4-default_20161206_amd64.tar.xz system alpine-3.5-default_20170504_amd64.tar.xz system archlinux-base_20170704-1_amd64.tar.gz system centos-6-default_20161207_amd64.tar.xz system centos-7-default_20170504_amd64.tar.xz system debian-6.0-standard_6.0-7_amd64.tar.gz system debian-7.0-standard_7.11-1_amd64.tar.gz system debian-8.0-standard_8.7-1_amd64.tar.gz system debian-9.0-standard_9.0-2_amd64.tar.gz system fedora-24-default_20161207_amd64.tar.xz system fedora-25-default_20170316_amd64.tar.xz system gentoo-current-default_20170503_amd64.tar.xz system opensuse-42.2-default_20170406_amd64.tar.xz system ubuntu-12.04-standard_12.04-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-14.04-standard_14.04-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-16.04-standard_16.04-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-16.10-standard_16.10-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-17.04-standard_17.04-1_amd64.tar.gz
For each of the templates you wish to use, download using for example for Ubuntu 14.04:
pveam download local ubuntu-14.04-standard_14.04-1_amd64.tar.gz
Now from the web ui, you should be able to click the ‘Create CT’ button and pick from your available templates:
What about downloading images/templates from LXC site, https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/, e.g. to run a 32-bit container. Do you know how to use them in Proxmox VE?.
Did you ever find out how to do that?
I don’t remember very well but I think that I resorted to use a VM instead of a CT. Anyway, https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/FAQ says:
> VMs and Containers can be both 32-bit and 64-bit.
I see this:
/mnt/pve/cephfs/template/cache# ls -la
total 984845
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Dec 6 21:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2 Dec 11 2019 ..
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 68649456 Sep 26 2019 centos-7-default_20190926_amd64.tar.xz
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 512197623 Sep 29 14:59 proxmox-mailgateway-7.0-standard_7.0-1_amd64.tar.gz
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 213430501 Jan 24 2019 ubuntu-18.04-standard_18.04.1-1_amd64.tar.gz
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 214203058 Apr 25 2020 ubuntu-20.04-standard_20.04-1_amd64.tar.gz
So I suppose one can simple download a container from whereever and place it at that location to make it available for installation.
Thanks.
The releases are fetched from http://download.proxmox.com/images/aplinfo-pve-8.dat
It contains the names of images which can you use to get the direct download URLs, for example:
– http://download.proxmox.com/images/system/ubuntu-24.04-standard_24.04-2_amd64.tar.zst
– http://download.proxmox.com/images/system/alpine-3.19-default_20240207_amd64.tar.xz