Templates are available directly through the Proxmox VE management interface, which offers both OS templates and virtual appliance templates.
In this section, we'll login to the web-based management interface, navigate to storage in the server view, and then browse the list of available templates.
To get started, login to Proxmox VE from a workstation on the same LAN; point a browser to port 8006 of the IP address of your Proxmox VE instance using SSL/TLS. The machine configured in this chapter has an address of 192.168.1.80
; to access this machine, for example, one can simply navigate to https://192.168.1.80:8006
in a (JavaScript enabled) browser.
Because PVE has a self-signed certificate, the browser will warn that the connection can't be trusted. Firefox, for example, will present a window like this:
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