F5 VE on Proxmox

Thanks ECCE, works really well installing Big-IP V15.1 - from scratch too !

Struggled a bit with BigIQ, but finally made it work:

Proxmox 6.2-4 , BigIQ 7.1::, (It helps if you've installed Big-IP first, following ECCE's manual above ..)

Import the QCOW2 image in Proxmox CLI ( I’m importing it to VM 107) :"qm importdisk 107 BIG-IQ-7.1.0.2.0.0.21.qcow2 local-lvm --format qcow2"

Go into the GUI and observe your virtual machine: you’ll see the newly imported disk

Now, here’s the trick; don’t just add the disk, but first change it from SCSI into SATA

Once you changed “Bus/Device” into “sata”, hit the blue “add” button

Now’ your disk is added to the virtual machine, but it won’t boot yet ..

Go into the virtual machine “options” menu on the left, and edit the boot order. You will see it’s set to boot from scsi, but there is no scsi disk, so the border around “boot device 1” is red.

Change it into ‘sata0’

Now hit start. It should boot