I’ve been using virt-manager for some time to spin up VMs, this works pretty well and I created some scripts to ssh and scp to the VM’s without having to worry about configuring DNS etc to avoid using ip addresses. I’ve seen references to Proxmox for some time and so decided to give it a go – Initially on a VM (yes I know… but just giving it a try)

Download and install from https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads was straightforward so won’t cover that here.

The end of the install gave an url to connect to logged in as root with the password set up in the install process. Clicking on Shell on the ui opened a