📖 Description:

This script streamlines the process of provisioning a VM in Proxmox from an OVA file. It performs the following steps:

1. Extracts the specified OVA archive.

2. Converts the contained virtual disk (VMDK/VHD) to QCOW2 format.

3. Creates a new Proxmox VM with basic resources.

4. Imports the QCOW2 disk into a specified Proxmox storage.

5. Attaches the imported disk as a SCSI device to the created VM.

🔧 Prerequisites

• Proxmox VE with qm and qemu-img utilities installed and accessible in your PATH.

• Appropriate permissions to create VMs and access storage on the Proxmox host.

• The OVA file and working directory must be readable/writable by the script user.

🚀 Usage

./import_ova.sh <OVA_FILE> <VM_ID> [STORAGE] [TEMPLATE_DIR]

📋 OVA Import Parameters

<OVA_FILE>
Full OVA filename (including the .ova extension)

<VM_ID>
Proxmox VM ID to create and import the disk into

[STORAGE] (Optional)
Proxmox storage target for the disk
Default: local-lvm

[TEMPLATE_DIR] (Optional)
Directory containing the OVA file and generated images
Default: /var/lib/vz/import

📤 Upload the OVA to Proxmox server

• Web interface:

  • you can upload the .ova file in the import section of the local storage Using the proxmox web interface

• 

  • This is put the file at /var/lib/vz/import/

• Using SCP:

    scp vm01.ova root@<proxmox server ip>:/var/lib/vz/template/
  

  

  ▶️ Run the script:

  Get the script at the Github Link

  Locally:

    git clone https://github.com/sumitsaz23/proxmox-scripts.git
  
    cd proxmox-scripts/import_ova/
  
    ./import_ova.sh my-vm.ova 123 my-storage /var/lib/vz/template
  

  Download & Run Directly using curl:

    curl -sSL \
      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sumitsaz23/proxmox-scripts/main/import_ova/import_ova.sh \
      | bash -s -- my-vm.ova 123 my-storage /var/lib/vz/template
  

  

  

  VM Successfully booting up