The VM-Series firewall is a virtualized form factor of Palo Alto Networks' physical hardware. The .qcow2 format (QEMU Copy-On-Write) is the standard disk image format for the QEMU/KVM hypervisor. It is optimized for thin provisioning, meaning the file only occupies as much space on the physical disk as the guest operating system actually uses. Key Features of PAN-OS 10.0.0
Set the filter to PAN-OS for VM-Series KVM Base Images . Pa-vm-kvm-10.0.0.qcow2 Download
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QCOW2 offers superior performance on Linux hosts, native support for compression, and the ability to create "golden images" where multiple VMs share a base disk while writing changes to separate overlay files. Key Features of PAN-OS 10
Here is a generic guide on how to deploy the file using standard Linux KVM tools (like virt-install or virsh ).
Before deploying the qcow2 image, ensure your KVM host meets the minimum resource requirements for PAN-OS 10.0: