diff --git a/roles/00_basic_proxmox_lxc/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/00_basic_proxmox_lxc/tasks/main.yaml
index 9f808d2..3456368 100644
--- a/roles/00_basic_proxmox_lxc/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/00_basic_proxmox_lxc/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -15,10 +15,22 @@
     ostemplate: 'main:vztmpl/debian-13-standard_13.1-2_amd64.tar.zst'
     memory: 2048
     cores: 5
-    state: started
+    state: present
     disk_volume:
       size: 2 # 2GB rootfs
       storage: local
     pubkey: "{{ lookup('file', lookup('env','HOME') + '/.ssh/ansible_key.pub') }}"
     netif:
-      net0: "name=eth0,gw=192.168.0.1,ip=192.168.0.40/24,bridge=vmbr0"
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+      net0: "name=eth0,gw=192.168.0.1,ip=192.168.0.40/24,bridge=vmbr0"
+
+- name: Make sure the container has started
+  become: no
+  community.proxmox.proxmox:
+    node: proxmox-server
+    api_user: root@pam
+    api_host: 192.168.0.2
+    api_token_id: ansible
+    api_token_secret: "{{ proxmox_token_secret }}"
+
+    vmid: 1040
+    state: started
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