I was today years old when I learned about the qm importovf command to bring a OVF VM appliance into Proxmox, discussed in passing on their wiki. Everything I’d seen previously said to read the .ovf file by eye, create a VM of matching specs, import the .vmdk file to that VM, etc. But this is much easier: qm importovf 999 /path/to/appliance.ovf storage, replacing 999 with the desired VM ID (make sure it doesn’t conflict with an existing VM), and storage with the name of the storage on which to put the virtual disk (local-lvm, local-zfs, etc.).
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