🚀 Getting Started

Installing Virtlix on a Fresh Server Server Requirements & Partition Layout Activating Your License Your First VPS

🖥️ VPS Management

Creating and Configuring a VPS Cloning and Rebuilding a VPS Creating a Reusable Template from a VPS Resource Plans and Per-VM Limits Windows Guest Support Rescue Mode: Recovering a Broken VPS

📦 LXC Containers

LXC Containers: What They Are and When to Use Them Creating and Managing an LXC Container LXC Container Limitations vs KVM

🌐 Networking & Firewall

IP Pool and Network Modes VPS Firewall Rules Server-Level Firewall Plans Console Access: noVNC and the Web Terminal Network Filtering: Anti-Spoofing and Rogue RA Protection IPv6 Dual-Stack Networking Power DNS Integration and Reverse DNS Zones Adding Multiple IPs and Per-IP MAC Overrides

💽 Storage & Hardware

Storage Pools: Local Disk and Remote NFS PCI and USB Device Passthrough Attaching Extra Volumes to a VPS

💾 Backups & OS Templates

Automated Backups and Backup Destinations Managing OS Templates Uploading and Using ISOs Media Groups

🔑 Multi-Server & Licensing

Understanding Your License and VPS Limits Master Configuration and Security Settings Registering and Controlling Remote Servers Webhook Callbacks Selling VPS Hosting Through WHMCS

🔐 Account & Security

Two-Factor Authentication

❓ Troubleshooting & FAQ

Console Shows "Connection Lost" License Shows as Suspended or Expired VPS Won't Start After Creation Common Questions Can't SSH Into a New LXC Container PCI Passthrough Device Not Working NFS Storage Pool Won't Mount OS Template Download Stuck or Failed

Docs / LXC Containers / Creating and Managing an LXC Container

Creating and Managing an LXC Container

On Create VPS, choose LXC under Virtualization, then pick a container template from the OS Template dropdown - it filters to templates built for LXC, which are separate rows from their KVM counterparts even when they share a distro name (e.g. "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS" appears once for KVM and once for LXC).

Hostname, root password, and an SSH public key work exactly like a KVM guest - set them on the create form and they're live on first boot. A static IP from your IP pool is configured automatically the same way too.

What's different from a KVM VPS:

No console. A container's rootfs is a directory on the host, not a virtual machine with its own virtual hardware, so there's no VNC console to connect to. Use SSH once the container has network access.
Disk size is informational only. LXC containers use the host filesystem directly rather than a fixed-size virtual disk, so the disk field on the create form isn't a hard enforced cap the way it is for KVM.
Reinstalling wipes and re-extracts a fresh container filesystem, same idea as a KVM reinstall, just faster since there's no disk image to recreate from scratch.

Start, stop, reboot, and delete all work from the same VPS detail page as any other guest - the panel doesn't surface which backend a VPS uses anywhere except the OS Template name itself.