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 .qcow2 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

• Now simply create a new 32bit KVM virtual machine with an IDE or SATA disk, the Intel E1000 NIC and a kvm32 CPU.
• Take note of the VM ID, copy or move the astlinux.qcow2 to /var/lib/vz/images/<VM ID>/ (it starts with 100).
• Then either edit /etc/pve/local/qemu-server/<VM ID>.conf and change the name of ide0 to astlinux.qcow2.
  • or just overwrite the default disk with: cp astlinux.qcow2 100/vm-100-disk-1.qcow2

Start the AstLinux Virtual Machine…

Finally, configure using the normal setup.

Note -> Testing was performed using Proxmox VE 3.1 on bare metal (you need a 64bit CPU with VT-x or it is really slow!). Your mileage may vary testing Proxmox within another VM, for example VMware appears to work for evaluation purposes, but VirtualBox may have issues with the network bridge interface.