OpenVZ container tutorials. Cant get further than initial setup

[n0hc]

So I am in the process of learning Proxmox better and better and am trying to figure out how to accomplish some little things and also trying to figure out my options. I am making a small home Proxmox server. I have it all setup and working and need to start install VM's. I can setup a standalone VM just fine no issues. However I want to run ~5 (as of now) ubuntu server 12.04 machines. I can easily install all separate VM's but would like to utilize the functions of proxmox. I was trying to setup a OpenVZ container and also tried making a template. I can get very far though. some questions:

1. I download the ubunut-12.04-X86_64.tar.gz from openvz template page. I upload it to the local hdd in proxmox and then created a CT. After I have this setup and I can see the OpenVZ Container what do I do? I cant figure out what I need to do after that to make a ubuntu server instance of that template.
2. Should I be using OpenVZ? I setup a Ubuntu Server VM and then right clicked on it and clicked "convert to template". After this I would right click and select "clone". It would create another VM and I would start it up but couldn't get on the my network (wanting to do bridged for everything). When I create a clone is that "linking" everything to that base template image?

So this is the main spot that I am getting confused, is trying to just use a base (or template) of Ubuntu Server and create multiple instances of that base. I tried following a couple guides and watch some videos on youtube however Im not able to successfully create what I am tyring. Here is one of the guides I followed:
http://renaud-cuny.com/en/blog/2013-05-23-whff-3-ubuntu-server-1204-kvm-proxmox/

Can you guys point me to a good guide or just please explain what I need to do to make this work. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!!

-n0hc

 

[pirateghost]

'CREATE CT'

That will let you create an OpenVZ container, then you just point it to your template that you downloaded.

 

[n0hc]

'CREATE CT'

That will let you create an OpenVZ container, then you just point it to your template that you downloaded.

I got that far and that seem to setup fine. I pointed it to the template and everything seemed to work. But how do a build a VM off of that container?

 

[pirateghost]

You don't make VM's from containers. The container is a 'VM'
You can deploy as many containers as you want from the same template you downloaded.

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