diff --git a/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix b/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix
index 00404dc7..352d1c93 100644
--- a/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix
+++ b/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix
@@ -180,11 +180,19 @@ in
     """)
 
     with subtest("Run the deployment"):
-      deployer.succeed(f"""
+
+      ip = deployer.succeed(f"""
         export SSL_CERT_FILE=/tmp/pve-ca-bundle.crt
         export PROXMOX_VE_API_TOKEN="root@pam!mytoken={pm_token}"
-        ${lib.getExe deployment.run} >&2
+        ${lib.getExe deployment.run} | jq -r '.ipv4.value[0]'
+        # ${lib.getExe deployment.run} >&2
+      """).strip()
+
+      deployer.succeed(f"""
+        ssh -i "/root/.ssh/id_ed25519" \
+        -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
+        -o BatchMode=yes \
+        root@{ip} hello >&2
       """)
-      # target.succeed("su - operator -c hello 1>&2")
   '';
 }
diff --git a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh
index f80ae5c3..93829715 100644
--- a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh
+++ b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 declare tf_env
 
-export TF_LOG=info
 # # on upload explodes RAM use + logs file content, causing timeout
 # export TF_LOG=debug
 
 cd "${tf_env}/deployment/run/tf-proxmox"
 # parallelism=1: limit OOM risk
-tofu apply --auto-approve -input=false -parallelism=1
-tofu output -json
+TF_LOG=info tofu apply --auto-approve -input=false -parallelism=1 >&2
+TF_LOG=error tofu output -json