Can't connect to the PROMOX web UI through wifi

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MrJello

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Tried installing Proxmox over wifi. I don't have access to Ethernet right now. Installation went through, and I got the welcome message on the server side, but the WEB UI can not be reached. I believe it has something to do with the fact that wlo1 is down. Not really too sure. Literally started learning all this yesterday. Thank you for your help.
 
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PVE does not install wifi support tools by default because wifi is not really suitable for this purpose. With most access points you cannot bridge multiple VM's to one wifi interface. It is not "hard", it is not possible. So you need to set up IP routing with NAT. See here for some options. If you are new to Linux this is going to be a learning experience:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/WLAN
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Thread 'Proxmox over WIFI (WLAN)'

Hi, I was trying to configure my proxmox server to connect to the internet via wifi, so I configured my /etc/network/interface like this
Code: 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.2/24
    gateway 192.168.1.1
    bridge-std off
    bridge-fd 0
    wpa-essid [MyESSID]
    wpa-psk [MyPASSWORD]

The server is then able to connect to the internet without problems but due to the lack of a bridge I cannot connect the VMs to the internet. I then edited /etc/network/interfaces to

Code: 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static...
 
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Or virt-manager which also uses KVM and LXC as base to do it's magic: https://virt-manager.org/
So you could use the same technology like ProxmoxVE but in a more desktop-oriented way.

Another option might be to use incus (although to be fair like ProxmoxVE it's more aimed at server environments).
 
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