Proxmox server DHCP

[endium]

Is it possible to have the proxmox server use dhcp instead of a static ip address? I want to be able to access the server by the fqdn, and don't care if the ip address changes. This is because I don't have control over giving a static ip address in our network.

I tried editing /etc/network/interfaces to have vmbr0 use dhcp instead of static ip. This works and I can access the admin GUI by the assigned ip address. For VMs I set the networking to bridged mode, and set eth0 also to use dhcp. This also seems to work.

What doesn't work is that I can't access the proxmox server by the fqdn. hostname -f says unknown host. I also notice that everytime i restart the server, proxmox is trying trying to add a line to /etc/hosts linking the domain to an IP.

Without any changes to the system and with a static IP it looks like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
[IP] [FQDN] [Hostname]

after changing to use dhcp, and say after 4 restarts I get this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
[FQDN] [Hostname] 
[FQDN] [Hostname] 
[FQDN] [Hostname] 
[FQDN] [Hostname]

 

[dietmar]

Is it possible to have the proxmox server use dhcp instead of a static ip address?

No, we do not support that.

 

[nabuhonodozor]

Its old thread but I ve also would like to know if it is still unsupperted to use DHCP on host. I would like to omit additional router if possible.

Ive configured /etc/network/interfaces as:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet dhcp
    bridge_ports eth0
    bridge_stp off
    bridge_fd 0

But in internet GUI in System configuration / network I have only eth1 present but eth0 is not present.
I can connect to host mashine through internet.


I have some simple personal projects on server and I would like to test and play with it.

Regards,
Piotr