Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Adjusting resources using the CLI

LXC comes with a vast number of command-line commands to manage containers. It is not possible to cover all the commands in this book. The good news for Proxmox users is that there are some tools or commands provided by Proxmox to make managing containers an easier task through the CLI. The pct command is a script created by Proxmox developers that wraps lxc commands. To see the available Proxmox commands for containers, we can run the following command:

# pct help

We can also get details of all the pct commands from the Proxmox wiki at https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Manual:_pct.conf.

Resource changes made using these commands get committed to the container immediately without the need to restart the container. ...