If you are accustomed to downloading standard Linux .iso files or OVA (Open Virtualization Format) files for VMware, you might ask: Why this?
A standard OS installation takes 15 to 30 minutes. Installing monitoring tools (like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stacks) takes hours. A qcow2 image like panoramakvm1004qcow2 is essentially a pre-installed, pre-configured appliance. You download it, attach it to a VM, and boot it. In under two minutes, you have a fully operational "Panorama" environment. panoramakvm1004qcow2