1 - Simple wget to download the image.
***You will need to locate the image for whatever distro and version you want to use***

1 - This creates a mostly empty VM configuration

• “9000” is simply the ProxMox ID for the VM. This separates the template ID from the normal VM ID’s ProxMox will assign.
• “–memory 2048” sets memory to 2G. A good start that can be changed when using the Template to create VMs.
• “–name rocky9.5-CI” set the name of the Template. Name yours however you’d like.
• “–net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0” set some default network device configs.
• “–ostype l26” sets the OS type to be “Linux 6.x – 2.6 Kernel”
• “–cpu host” sets the CPU type to whatever your ProxMox host is running.
• “–serial0 socket –vga serial0” sets the console so we can see boot up messages.

1 - Imports the download image into ProxMox and attaches it to the given Template ID.
***Note: The last line has the location and name of the disk.  Something like this: Successfully imported disk as 'unused0:local_lvm:vm-9000-disk-0' ***

• “9000” gives the Template ID to attache the image to.
• “Rocky-9-GenericCloud” is which image file to use.
• “local_lvm” is the ProxMox Storage location to use. It can be any storage you have configured for the use of VM disk storage. local_lvm is the default ProxMox configures.

1 - Attached the disk to the Template.

• “9000” specifies the VMID
• “–scsihw virtio-scsi-pci” sets the disk hardware type
• “–scsi0 local_lvm:vm-9000-disk-0” sets scsi disk 0 the image uploaded in the previous command.

1 - Creates and attaches Cloud Init drive for the Template.
2 - Configures the boot disk to be "c" and scsi0.

1 - Changes VM to be a template
***Up until now what we've been building has officially been a VM.  We've now turned it into a Template***