diff --git a/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/data-model.nix b/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/data-model.nix
index a00dd6d7..b9a1f195 100644
--- a/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/data-model.nix
+++ b/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/data-model.nix
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ in
             deployment-name,
           }:
           {
-            tf-proxmox-host = {
+            tf-proxmox-vm = {
               nixos-configuration = mkNixosConfiguration environment required-resources;
               system = targetSystem;
               ssh = {
diff --git a/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix b/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix
index 29f609d7..db530851 100644
--- a/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix
+++ b/deployment/check/data-model-tf-proxmox/nixosTest.nix
@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ let
         ipv6Gateway = "";
         ipv6Address = "";
       };
-    }).default.tf-proxmox-host;
+    }).default.tf-proxmox-vm;
 in
 {
   _class = "nixosTest";
   name = "deployment-model";
   sourceFileset = lib.fileset.unions [
-    ../../run/tf-proxmox/run.sh
-    ../../run/tf-proxmox/await-ssh.sh
+    ../../run/tf-proxmox-vm/run.sh
+    ../../run/tf-proxmox-vm/await-ssh.sh
   ];
 
   nodes.pve =
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ in
         pkgs.pve-manager
         pkgs.openssl
         pkgs.jq
-        (pkgs.callPackage ../../run/tf-proxmox/tf.nix { })
+        (pkgs.callPackage ../../run/tf-proxmox-vm/tf.nix { })
       ];
 
       # needed only when building from deployer
diff --git a/deployment/data-model.nix b/deployment/data-model.nix
index 4b757d6c..e6dac4f3 100644
--- a/deployment/data-model.nix
+++ b/deployment/data-model.nix
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ let
         };
       });
     };
-    tf-proxmox-host = mkOption {
+    tf-proxmox-vm = mkOption {
       description = "A Terraform deployment by SSH to update a single existing NixOS host.";
       type = submodule (tf-host: {
         options = {
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ let
                   key-file
                   sshOpts
                   ;
-                deployment-type = "tf-proxmox-host";
+                deployment-type = "tf-proxmox-vm";
                 nixos_conf = writeConfig {
                   inherit
                     system
@@ -464,10 +464,10 @@ let
                 };
                 tf-env = pkgs.callPackage ./run/tf-env.nix {
                   inherit httpBackend;
-                  tfPackage = pkgs.callPackage ./run/tf-proxmox/tf.nix { };
+                  tfPackage = pkgs.callPackage ./run/tf-proxmox-vm/tf.nix { };
                   tfDirs = [
                     "deployment/run/tf-single-host"
-                    "deployment/run/tf-proxmox"
+                    "deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm"
                   ];
                 };
                 vm_name = "test14";
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ let
                   pkgs.qemu
                   pkgs.nixos-generators
                   pkgs.httpie
-                  (pkgs.callPackage ./run/tf-proxmox/tf.nix { })
+                  (pkgs.callPackage ./run/tf-proxmox-vm/tf.nix { })
                 ])
                 ''
                   set -e
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ let
                   env ${toString (lib.mapAttrsToList (k: v: "TF_VAR_${k}=\"${toBash v}\"") environment)} \
                   ${toString (lib.mapAttrsToList (k: v: "${k}=\"${toBash v}\"") httpBackend)} \
                   TF_VAR_image=/tmp/${name}.qcow2 \
-                  tf_env=${tf-env} bash ./deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh
+                  tf_env=${tf-env} bash ./deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/run.sh
                 '';
             # # don't really wanna deal with having to do versioned updates for now
             # qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 -C "${machine.config.system.build.image}/${name}.raw" /tmp/${name}.qcow2
diff --git a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/await-ssh.sh b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/await-ssh.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from deployment/run/tf-proxmox/await-ssh.sh
rename to deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/await-ssh.sh
diff --git a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/main.tf b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/main.tf
similarity index 100%
rename from deployment/run/tf-proxmox/main.tf
rename to deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/main.tf
diff --git a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/run.sh
similarity index 86%
rename from deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh
rename to deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/run.sh
index 93829715..9330e5cd 100644
--- a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/run.sh
+++ b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/run.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ declare tf_env
 # # on upload explodes RAM use + logs file content, causing timeout
 # export TF_LOG=debug
 
-cd "${tf_env}/deployment/run/tf-proxmox"
+cd "${tf_env}/deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm"
 # parallelism=1: limit OOM risk
 TF_LOG=info tofu apply --auto-approve -input=false -parallelism=1 >&2
 TF_LOG=error tofu output -json
diff --git a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/tf.nix b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/tf.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from deployment/run/tf-proxmox/tf.nix
rename to deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/tf.nix
diff --git a/deployment/run/tf-proxmox/variables.tf b/deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/variables.tf
similarity index 100%
rename from deployment/run/tf-proxmox/variables.tf
rename to deployment/run/tf-proxmox-vm/variables.tf
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 50fe6e32..d8e90e73 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
                         # ipv6Address = "2a00:51c0:13:1305::${vm-id}";
                       };
                       # opt not to pass `inputs`, as we could only pass serializable arguments through to its self-call
-                    })."tf-proxmox-deployment".tf-proxmox-host
+                    })."tf-proxmox-deployment".tf-proxmox-vm
                     }
                 '';
               in