Proxmox Without Internet

[Donald L]

I am have installed Proxmox 7.1 to a Windows10 laptop. I got the service up and written to my hard drive. However, I can not connect via internet as I have a wifi card which is not being recognized by the Proxmox service. Is there anyway I can start the gui by a command to the console on my computer so that I can create a VM?

Thanks!

 

[oguz]

hi,

However, I can not connect via internet as I have a wifi card which is not being recognized by the Proxmox service.

which wifi card do you have? does it work if you attach an external wifi card?
how do you notice that the wifi card is not recognized? can you post the output of ip a?

Is there anyway I can start the gui by a command to the console on my computer so that I can create a VM?

the GUI is already running when you boot PVE. if you install a GUI environment [0] then you can access it locally from the same machine using a browser (via https://127.0.0.1:8006)

[0]: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11

 

[Dunuin]

In general you really want to use a ethernet NIC and not Wifi. Most Wifi chipsets won't allow the Wifi interface to be bridged. So even if your PVE host is able to go online through wifi, it is very likely that none of your VMs will be able to access your LAN/internet. In that case your only option would be to try a more compicated network configuration (routed setup / NAT setup) where your PVE host works as a router so no briding is required. But wifi is less reliable, less secure and slower so it might be a good idea anyway to add a enternet NIC. I guess you can't add a PCIe NIC, so a USB3-NIC would still be an option.

 

[Docop2]

the GUI is already running when you boot PVE. if you install a GUI environment [0] then you can access it locally from the same machine using a browser (via https://127.0.0.1:8006)

So to access directly, from a vm, is a schematic like this will do ? :

Router -) Prox nic - vmbr0
.168.50.1 .50.14 |__ vmbr1 = VM with AP wifi
10.10.20.3

So with that setup, a kind of nat set in vmbr1 might be bridge to the main vbmr0, then going in web and put 127.0.0.1:8086 will give the prox gui ?

 

[Donald L]

As an alternative is it possible to dual boot Windows 10 and Proxmox?