Failing to follow provisioning-proxmoxve

[hobsie]

I'm trying to follow the tutorial to provision CoreOS on Proxmox but getting confused at the step "Downloading Fedora CoreOS Images".

Instructions say to use the following command to download the QCOW2 image to the Proxmox storage created in the previous step:

coreos-installer download -s $STREAM -p proxmoxve -f qcow2.xz --decompress -C /var/coreos

But at this stage we're still in the Proxmox shell on the VE host and don't have access to coreos-installer?

[dustymabe]

cc @jdoss

[jdoss]

Hey @hobsie you are downloading the qcow to the proxmox storage you have created here? Then you will want to place your ignition file as detailed in the next steps. You can then use the qm to launch your FCOS VM. Let me know if you have any questions!

[hobsie]

Thanks for responding @jdoss - I actually have it all setup and running now but got stuck for a bit during that part of the instructions since fetching the image with coreos-installer would imply you already have it running and are in a CoreOS terminal and not the Proxmox Shell at the time.

It does have a link and a comment saying "or downlaod and verify it from the web" but it may be clearer to give explicit instructions to wget and unpack the qcow2 image within the proxmox shell.

The podman instructions probably still work - although that's not installed on the Proxmox host by default.

The rest of the instructions afterwards all worked well without issue.