[Mashiro]

Any provider who is providing KVM VPSs or similar hardware virtualization (VMWare, Xen-HVM...) should already have provided you with access to a console (regardless of SolusVM/Virtualizor calling it VNC). A console is a basic feature for KVM and is absolutely needed to perform emergency access to the VPS or perform OS installations and maintenance without SSH access (e.g. offline partition changes, system recovery...). This console and the control panel is to you what HP iLO, DELL iDRAC, Fujitsu ServerView and any other remote server management panel is to your hosting provider for their dedicated servers and VM hypervisors. It's a vital thing to have and needed to perform any kind of remote operations. Especially with a virtual thing since you cannot touch it... you need "remote hands" or "KVM". A lot of names for the same thing.

Anyway... the installation process for those who know how to install Linux by ISO will probably take no longer than 15 minutes depending on the performance of the service and the network speed. It only looks like there are lot of steps to do but as you can see on the screenshots yourself the installation just consists of only 11 steps overall. Sure some steps are a bit divided such as partitioning if you decide to do a custom layout and a few others. If you stick with the defaults though the installation is done absolutely quickly and you are ready to go.

Why this guide was made specific for Ubuntu Server 18.04? Well, because it was for a help thread in regards to a broken KVM template of Ubuntu Server 18.04 on VirMach. VirMach knows it is broken but doesn't want to fix it or can't because they didn't create the template. Their way of fixing the problem was telling us to install it from ISO.... so here is a guide for those who haven't installed it from a ISO before. Honestly I prefer installation from ISO over any template system. It has more freedom and allows you to install and setup the system HOW YOU WANT IT. A template was made by someone somewhere... with something you don't know. Like OpenVZ templates came preloaded with a lot of bloatware (preinstall web server and etc...). Back in the days there were even faulty KVM templates that had a big security issue in regards to SSH keys on the server. Basically every KVM VPS using that broken template would have exactly the same SSH keys across all the VPSs and providers world wide (who used the template).