Short steps required to spin up Palo Alto Networks' VM-Series on Proxmox

VM-Series on Proxmox.md

VM-Series on Proxmox

Special thanks to Zach Forsyth

Order of operations

1. SSH into your Proxmox server

ssh root@pve1

2. Download QCOW2 image from support

wget https://download.somewhere.com/PA-VM-KVM-10.2.3.qcow2

3. Create the VM

Make sure to update accordingly, I would suggest changing values for --name and all of the networks --net1-3

qm create 867 \
--name palo-fw-template \
--agent enabled=1 \
--machine q35 \
--bios seabios \
--numa 0 \
--cpu host \
--ostype l26 \
--cores 2 \
--sockets 1 \
--memory 6144  \
--serial0 socket \
--scsihw virtio-scsi-pci \
--boot order='virtio0' \
--hotplug disk,network,usb,cpu \
--net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0,tag=60 \
--net1 virtio,bridge=vmbr0,tag=1101 \
--net2 virtio,bridge=vmbr0,tag=1102 \
--net3 virtio,bridge=vmbr0,tag=1103

4. Import the VM-Series disk

Update your storage path accordingly, in this example I am using local-lvm

qm importdisk 867 PA-VM-KVM-10.2.3.qcow2 local-lvm --format qcow2

5. Attach the disk to your VM

qm set 867 --virtio0 local-lvm:vm-867-disk-0,discard=on,cache=writeback

6. Start your VM

qm start 867