A tour of the console
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The console is the whole product. Everything Virtainer Free can do is reachable from the sidebar, and everything it shows is this host’s own state.
Dashboard
Section titled “Dashboard”The landing page: host health, capacity, and what is running right now. Start here after a reboot or when something looks wrong.
Compute
Section titled “Compute”The machines, and the things you build them from.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Instances | Every machine on the host, classic VMs and AppVMs together, with the actions that apply to each. See Create a VM, Lifecycle and console, and Logs, exec, and redeploy |
| VM images | The Linux cloud images cached on this host. See Images and templates |
| AppVM images | OCI and Docker images imported or built into bootable templates. See Run a Docker image |
| Templates | Saved create-form settings, for both classic VMs and AppVMs |
A template is a saved set of create-form parameters, not a machine you clone. Creating from one fills the form in; it does not link the machine to the template afterwards.
Machines here can also take snapshots and be given PCI devices. Before importing an OCI image, Will my image run? is worth two minutes, and Runtime options covers overriding what the image declares.
The resources your machines are built from.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Networks | The networks machines attach to. See Networks |
| Storage | The storage pool, its disks, and their health. See Storage pools |
| Volumes | Disks that live independently of any machine. See Data volumes |
| API Keys | Scoped keys for automation. See API keys |
System
Section titled “System”Operating the host itself.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Operations | Long-running work the host is doing or has done, such as image conversion, publishing, and redeploys, with its log |
| Settings | Web account, port, SSH, VM autostart, host power. See Settings |
| OS Updates | Switch the host image and roll back. See OS updates |
| Logs & Diagnostics | Logs, disk health, reports. See Logs and diagnostics |
| Danger Zone | Factory reset. See Danger Zone |
Getting help
Section titled “Getting help”The console has a Support form. No support address is printed in the product, so that is the route from inside a running host, alongside the contact page on the Virtainer site.