This repo is a continuation of francismunch's easy cloud VM script to include modern versions of distributions (while also omitting outdated versions). The majority of the script code is his making.

Proxmox Virtual Machine Builder with Cloud Images

You can have a virtual machine created and booted with the information you set within two minutes. Auto downloads the cloud image if you need it and once all the information is set it auto starts it for you.

This script can be used for beginners that don't know much about Proxmox yet or it can be used by advanced users to get a bunch of different VM's running in no time. (Pro tip give it your ansible key when asked for keys and then run your playbook after creation)

How To Run the script

It is recommended to use curl and keep it in whatever home folder you use for easier updating. Moving into /usr/sbin is also an option

curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pascal48/vmbuilder-updated/main/vmbuilder.sh' >> vmbuilder && chmod +x vmbuilder

Features

If you are in a cluster environment you are able to pick the Proxmox node to have it on (by the way of qm migrate) It will download the image for you if you don't have it It builds a user.yaml file and adds it as a snippet - so you can customize a lot of the cloud image VM when creating it (See Proxmox Wiki about snippets to learn more) It checks what storage is availabe on your Proxmox node and you are able to pick what you want to use It checks what snippet storage is availabe on your Proxmox node and you are able to pick what you want to use You can customize:

Hostname
ID number (It checks ID's in the entire cluster and also provides next number if you don't use custom numbers)
Username
Password
Add a SSH key file (example id_rsa.pub)
Asks if you want to enable SSH password authentication (Keys are safer)
Select storage you want to run the Virtual Machine on
Select the storage location of your ISO files
Select the storage and location of your snippet files (for user.yaml)
Check if you want to use DHCP or enter Static IP
If you want to enter a VLAN number
If you want to resize the cloud image storage so you can have more space
It lets you set the number of cores and memory for the Virtual Machine
Asks if you want it to install qemu-guest-agent (see Proxmox's wiki for more infomation) - Great to have out of the box from the Admin side of Proxmox
Added the option to start after creation or not to start
Asks what Proxmox node to have the VM running after all is complete
Makes it simple to learn some of the CLI of proxmox (by reviewing the script) and some awesome built in featues of Proxmox to get things up and running fast and easily

Cloud Images supported

Ubuntu Hirsute 21.04
Ubuntu Focal 20.04
Ubuntu 20.04 Minimal
CentOS 7
AlmaLinux 8
Debian 10
Debian 11
Ubuntu Bionic 18.04
Fedora 34 (will be removed when support ends)
Fedora 35

Changelog

Added 12/02/2021

Changed machine type to q35
Changed CPU type from generic "kvm64" to "host"
Disks are now added in virtio instead of scsi
Fedora 35 added
CentOS 8 switched out for AlmaLinux 8
Added a thing that tells the user they can use a root account

Future script stuff

- Add an option to use IPV6 or IPV4
- Alpine Linux
- FreeBSD Support
- Red Hat (Fedora, CentOS) cloud images work, but doesn't transfer all user.yaml (like host name) snippet info yet...but works with username/password/sshkeys

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