proxmox

Proxmox Virtual Environment

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with ease.

notes

• you can only terraform VM’s from when a template exists
• when using terraform to spin up VM’s, use virt-sysprep to modify images without needing to use gui
• ensure your bios has virtualisation features enabled
  • e.g. for hp elitedesk: https://support.hp.com/id-en/document/ish_5637142-5637191-16

guides

• very clear and concies good guide on how to import qcow2 images to proxmox: https://www.kali.org/docs/virtualization/install-proxmox-guest-vm/