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Learning Proxmox VE

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Learning Proxmox VE

Overview of this book

Proxmox VE 4.1 provides an open source, enterprise virtualization platform on which to host virtual servers as either virtual machines or containers. This book will support your practice of the requisite skills to successfully create, tailor, and deploy virtual machines and containers with Proxmox VE 4.1. Following a survey of PVE's features and characteristics,this book will contrast containers with virtual machines and establish cases for both. It walks through the installation of Proxmox VE, explores the creation of containers and virtual machines, and suggests best practices for virtual disk creation, network configuration, and Proxmox VE host and guest security.Throughout the book, you will navigate the Proxmox VE 4.1 web interface and explore options for command-line management
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Starting and stopping containers


To start the container, select it in the left pane; the icon should be black and gray, indicating a container that is not running.

  1. In the following screenshot, my container is identified with a VM ID of 100 and the name trusty-chapter3:

    Icon of stopped container

  2. In the upper-right corner of the interface, start the container by clicking on the Start button:

Container Start button

When the container start up process is complete, it is signified in the left frame of the interface by a change in the color of the container's icon; it should now be green, black, and grey instead of simply black and grey; the green addition to the icon is a quick way to visually distinguish a running container from a stopped one.

The icon of a running container is green, black, and grey

In the resource tree, in the left frame, select the running container.

On the right side of the screen, several buttons become available:

  • Clicking on Shutdown will shut down the container gracefully...