Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Configuring a VM-specific firewall

Rules created for a VM only apply to that particular virtual machine. Even when the virtual machine is moved to a different node, the firewall rule follows the VM throughout the cluster. There are no rules cascading from this zone. Under the VM firewall feature, we can create rules, aliases, and IPSets, but we cannot create a security group. The firewall management is the same for both the KVM virtual machines and LXC containers. We can go to the firewall feature of a VM by navigating to the VM | Firewall menu: