docs(appliance): install-paths guide — which artifact, which hypervisor#534
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…ick-start From the v0.17.0 dogfood. appliance-libvirt.md gains a 'Pick your path' table (VirtualBox/VMware → generic OVA wizard; libvirt/Proxmox → native qcow2; OVA-on- libvirt → use qcow2 or hand-convert, virt-v2v noted as overkill), a copy-paste qcow2 zero-config quick-start (unxz → virt-install --import) with the --import gotcha called out, the zero-config first-boot walkthrough, and the bootstrap-seed convergence note (ADR-103/119). Troubleshooting gains the OVA-won't-import and bare-positional --import entries. README first-boot cross-links the path table.
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Documents the appliance install paths, straight from the
v0.17.0dogfood. Closes the third of the three threads.docs/self-host/appliance-libvirt.md— new "Pick your path" section up top:virt-install --import); OVA-on-libvirt → use the qcow2 or hand-convert (virt-v2vnoted as overkill — a heavy guest-conversion tool for an already-KVM-native image).unxz→virt-install --import), with the--import-still-needs-the-VM-definition gotcha called out (the "unrecognized arguments" trap) + GUI "Import existing disk image" / Debian 12.:3000, creds on console/kg-credentials.txt) and the bootstrap-seed convergence note (operator.sh upgradekeeps it current — ADR-103/119).--import file.qcow2→ unrecognized arguments".appliance/README.md— first-boot cross-links the path table so a README reader gets steered to the right artifact.Why
The dogfood proved the qcow2 is the native, easy path on libvirt (the OVA is friction there), that virt-v2v is the wrong tool, and that zero-config first boot Just Works — but none of that was written down. This captures it for the next person.
Test
doclint + link_check: 0/0 (new anchors + ADR links resolve).