Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Direct shell through the CLI

One of the best features of an LXC container is the ability to directly access the container shell through the CLI of the host node. The Proxmox command to access the LXC container shell is as follows:

# pct enter <ct_id>  

This gives us the direct shell prompt of the container, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the previous example, we are accessing the LXC container ubuntu-01 from the Proxmox node pmx-01. Note that no password was asked to be entered into the container from the Proxmox node. Since a container is running as root, we can perform any tasks inside the container. Once done, we can simply type ...