From 3a6fa247b34be8b67b3730108a4ce7a68c144825 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dietmar Maurer Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 15:51:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] improve pveam description --- pct.adoc | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/pct.adoc b/pct.adoc index 77c33e1..a45e280 100644 --- a/pct.adoc +++ b/pct.adoc @@ -243,6 +243,42 @@ for {pve} Appliance Manager) command line utility. You can also download https://www.turnkeylinux.org/[TurnKey Linux] containers using that tool (or the graphical user interface). +Our image repositories contain a list of available images, and there +is a cron job run each day to download that list. You can trigger that +update manually with: + + pveam update + +After that you can view the list of available images using: + + pveam available + +You can restrict this large list by specifying the 'section' you are +interested in, for example basic 'system' images: + +.List available system images +---- +# pveam available --section system +system archlinux-base_2015-24-29-1_x86_64.tar.gz +system centos-7-default_20160205_amd64.tar.xz +system debian-6.0-standard_6.0-7_amd64.tar.gz +system debian-7.0-standard_7.0-3_amd64.tar.gz +system debian-8.0-standard_8.0-1_amd64.tar.gz +system ubuntu-12.04-standard_12.04-1_amd64.tar.gz +system ubuntu-14.04-standard_14.04-1_amd64.tar.gz +system ubuntu-15.04-standard_15.04-1_amd64.tar.gz +system ubuntu-15.10-standard_15.10-1_amd64.tar.gz +---- + +Before you can use such template, you need to download them into one +of your storages. You can simply use storage 'local' for that +purpose. For clustered installations, it is preferred to use a shared +storage so that all nodes can access those images. + + pveam download local debian-8.0-standard_8.0-1_amd64.tar.gz + +You are now ready to create containers using that template. + Container Storage ----------------- -- 2.39.2