Convert AstLinux install files to Proxmox VE

You can convert an astlinux-XX.img file to a Proxmox VE .qcow2 file and have a bootable system with a few simple steps.

1. Download an AstLinux 'geni586' .img.gz file
2. scp the image to /var/lib/vz/images/ on your Proxmox VE server
3. Decompress the image using gunzip, yielding a .img file
4. Use the qemu-img utility to resize the raw image (in this example to 4 GB)
5. Use the qemu-img utility to convert the image to a virtual disk

Example:

gunzip astlinux-1.1.3-asterisk-1.8.23.1.img.gz

qemu-img resize astlinux-1.1.3-asterisk-1.8.23.1.img 4G

qemu-img convert -f raw astlinux-1.1.3-asterisk-1.8.23.1.img -O qcow2 astlinux.qcow2

Then simply create a new VirtualBox virtual machine using this .vdi file as the disk (I used a network bridge (en0) and the PCnet-Fast III adapter for the 'geni586' image on a Mac).

Start the AstLinux Virtual Machine…

Finally, configure using the normal setup.

Be sure to use it as IDE harddisk in VirtualBox (default is SATA).