How to install and use qm from remote host?

[Paul554]

I'm new to proxmox (and like it ), but now want to version my cluster setup (bunch of VM's /w specific confs). To this purpose i'm searching for a cli tool to manage my VM's (which appears to be qm).

Now I get stuck on following:
1) How do i install the qm tool on a ubuntu setup (in my case it's a wsl2 even)
2) Can i configure qm to connect to the remote proxmox cluster?

Although more complicated but it would also be fine to run qm commands over ssh (on a management vm on proxmox).

Some guidelines are appreciated...

Paul

 

[proxuser77]

qm is a local command-line tool. It is installed on the Proxmox host itself and not exposed as a network service. To use it, you need to log in to the Proxmox host, usually via SSH, and run the command there, just as you would with any other Linux command. Or, I guess, you could also execute it remotely over SSH without opening an interactive shell, for example:

ssh root@proxmox-host 'qm list'
ssh root@proxmox-host 'qm start 100'

 

[gfngfn256]

Documentation for the qm command.