Download Appliance Boot Media

Boot Images and Checksums

The links below correspond to Talos 1.13.7, the component version specified in the release catalog. Always use the version, platform and guest-agent choice shown by Download and boot the Talos artifact for your selected release. If that page specifies another version, use its links instead.

Platform and variant Boot image SHA-256 checksum

Proxmox, noCloud

Download ISO

Checksum

Proxmox, noCloud with QEMU guest agent

Download ISO

Checksum

VMware with VMware Tools

Download OVA

Checksum

Connected and Air-gapped Use

For a connected installation, download the selected artifact and checksum when Management reaches Download and boot the Talos artifact.

For an air-gapped installation, obtain the matching artifact and checksum on a connected workstation and transfer both to storage available to the hypervisor. Check the version, platform and guest-agent choice against the installation plan before booting the targets.

Verify the artifact’s SHA-256 digest against its checksum, then follow Prepare Proxmox nodes or Prepare VMware nodes. Continue with Target Discovery and Disk Confirmation in Management.