Dealing with tiny console text in Proxmox

It is easy to do most Proxmox things through the Web interface. You can easily interact with virtual machines through a console in your browser, but the console text is very small and borderline readable for someone like me. You can easily increase the size of the text by changing the console font thus:

setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-Terminus32x16.psf.gz

This works on a recent version of Ubuntu. There are lots of other fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts that you might prefer.

As this won’t persist across sessions, you can add this as the default to your login shell with:

echo "setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-Terminus32x16.psf.gz" >> ~/.bashrc