After moving from a plain Ubuntu install to Proxmox for my home lab usage, I had one highly-customized Ubuntu server that I needed to import into Proxmox.

Doing so took a few steps, but was simple to do, once I figured out how to do it.

Create a basic virtual machine

• General - Name is whatever you want, but note the …

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I wanted to be able to organize my virtual machines in folders, as you can in ESXi.

A folder for templates, one for an Openshift install, or any older project I might be working on at that time.

In Proxmox, there is an indirect way of accomplishing this by creating Pools, then adding the virtual machine(s) to that …

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One of the things I always like about using VMWare's ESXi servers was the ability to access the console of the virtual machine (VM).

This ability also exists when using Linux KVM and Linux VMs, and is pretty simple to set up.

Bonus points after a small config change, it's much more usable.

Enable the console from …

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I have two KVM systems: one that run on my NAS, and one dedicated for KVM, which is also the one I use for lab testing.

I've found a couple of times where I've had a VM on my lab KVM that I wanted to move/migrate to my NAS (non-lab, or prod) KVM.

Not difficult to do, as both systems are set up the same way, …

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Virtual machines (VM) and their KVM host can't communicate over the network, which is by design.

There are times however, that I want to enable VM to KVM host communication, typically because the KVM host is hosting something else I want to access from the VM..

The two ways of doing this, along with the pros and cons: …

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