VM

qcow upload and attach to vm
Build random virtual machine, on OS tab select do not use any media 

   

 Upload qcow image to proxmox server (works on smb share as well) 

 navigate via terminal shell (not via ssh needs to be done via web gui) to file location 

 /home/csr/Downloads/Lab/nnSCZ910p1-img-vm_kvm.qcow2 

 run command qm importdisk 501 nnSCZ910p1-img-vm_kvm.qcow2 Data 

   

   

 attach disk to VM 

 

   

 

 Change the boot order 

   

 

   

 Boot machine (remove image disk and keep new only)

PFSense on Proxmox
This is a short guide to install PFSense on Proxmox as VM 

 Download PFSense CE from  https://www.pfsense.org/download/ 

 Upload or download iso to Proxmox  

 Navigate to your storage drive ,click on ISO Images, upload or download from URL 

 

 

 

 

 

 on Proxmox create new VM, for this LAB we will keep all settings default 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 After its finish you can go to your virtual machine, navigte to hardware to add as many network interface you need, for our LAB we only need 2 one for WAN (Default nic) and one for LAN (to segment networks on our proxmox LAB. 

 

 

 For our LAB we are adding vmbr1 (previously assigned on Proxmox pve/network/create linux bridge) our physical server has 3 physical NICs for testing. 

 we are also using vlan 20 for testing purposes, you can proceed without a vlan if not needed, click add. 

 

 

 Now we are ready to turn on VM go to console and navigate thru the wizard. 

 Click on Accept 

 

 Select Install and ok 

 

 

 Default Keymap unless you need to select a different keyboard map 

 

 

 

 We will use an ZFS partition for this LAB as is virtual, if you are installing on a physical device you can use manual to specify your partition type 

 

 Proceed with Installation 

 

 We will select Stripe as this is a virtual machine, no need for mirror zfs type, if you are installing this on a physical machine and would like to have  raid type partition make sure to select mirror 

 

 

 Confirm your configuration and select ok 

 

 Last chance, make sure you select Yes unless you want to make any modification, select yes and press enter. 

 

 

 PFSense will begin the installation. 

 

 Select no unless you need to go to shell for any configuration, not needed for this lab. 

 

 

 if you navigate to shell you can type exit and then select reboot to complete the installation 

 

 

 

 

 After reboot you will be prompt about setting up vlans, select N 

 

 

 type in your WAN interface or select a for auto-detection, if your interface is not yet connected select your interface manually in our case vtnet0 

 

 vtnet1 for our LAN 

 

 Proceed type Y then enter 

 

 

 PFsense will initiate the interfaces and configure services 

 

 server is ready, in order to logon since we are running pfsense on a virtual machine and we are not directly connected to our LAN interface we need to enable the WAN interface to allow connections by disabling packet filter 

 

 select option 8 and enter the following command 

 pfctl -d 

 to enable again enter command 

 pfctl -e 

 

 

 Navigate to your WAN IP https://192.168.2.6 

 default username is admin password is pfsense 

 change your password. 

 

 

 This is it, that's how you deploy pfsense as a virtual machine on Proxmox

Ova to qcow VM host proxmox
1.-  first we make a directory in this case our directory is ova 

 mkdir ova  

 cd ova 

 2.- Download ova (we're usingg wazuh for this project) 

 wget -O wazuh.ova https://packages.wazuh.com/4.x/vm/wazuh-4.4.5.ova 

 3.-  extract our ova 

 tar xvf wazuh.ova 

 4.- create a VM on Proxmox from our file. ( qm importovf <unused vmid> <path to ova> <destination storage pool name> [OPTIONS]) 

 qm importovf 201 ./wazuh-4.4.5.ovf Data --format qcow2 

   

 after VM has been sucesfully import open web browser navigate to proxmox and start new vm. 

   

 you can delete our ova folder now 

 rm ova/ -r