Proxmox - Guests (VMs and Containers) - Download a Container Image

Before a Container Template can be used it needs to be downloaded into one of the storage areas.

pveam download local debian-10.0-standard_10.0-1_amd64.tar.gz

NOTE: Use local for simple usage.

For clustered installations, it is preferred to use a shared storage so that all nodes can access those images.

List downloaded images

List all downloaded images on storage local with:

pveam list local

returns:

NAME                                                         SIZE  
local:vztmpl/debian-10-turnkey-dokuwiki_16.1-1_amd64.tar.gz  221.43MB
local:vztmpl/debian-10-turnkey-nginx-php-fastcgi_16.1-1_amd64.tar.gz 261.15MB
local:vztmpl/fedora-33-default_20201115_amd64.tar.xz         83.92MB
local:vztmpl/ubuntu-20.04-standard_20.04-1_amd64.tar.gz      204.28MB
local:vztmpl/ubuntu-21.04-standard_21.04-1_amd64.tar.gz      215.40MB
local:vztmpl/ubuntu-desktop-x.tar.gz                         244.82MB