Running Proxmox on a Viper Laptop Z11, Looking for Networking Advice

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mohsin045

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I'm planning to install Proxmox VE on a Viper Laptop Z11 for a small home lab. The goal is to run a few Linux VMs and containers for testing, learning, and some lightweight self hosted services.

Since the laptop only has built in networking, I'm looking for recommendations on the best way to configure the network. Would you use a Linux bridge with VLANs, or is there a better approach for this type of setup? I'm also interested in any firewall best practices to keep the host isolated while allowing the VMs to communicate normally.

If anyone has experience running Proxmox on laptop hardware, especially regarding network stability, power management, or wireless limitations, I'd really appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
Hi @mohsin045

thanks for posting on the forum!

mohsin045 said:
If anyone has experience running Proxmox on laptop hardware, especially regarding network stability, power management, or wireless limitations
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Since this is not directly the intended use case for this software tests on the Proxmox side are lean on this. On the other hand since Proxmox VE is built on top of Debian which is built as a general purpose OS this should still work fine.
Especially for the Wi-Fi configuration i recommend looking into the Debian docs here [1]. This method should (!) also work with the GUI, but i can't guarantee that since i've never done that myself.

Apart from that, your approach using VLANs is one way to do things, but since i don't think you have a particular use case for network communication of your VMs outside of the host, this might not be the best way to go.
I recommend having a look into the SDN stack of Proxmox which offers the so called "Simple zone" [2]. This enables you to create a virtual net on the local host in which your VMs and Containers can communicate with each other but nothing else, except if you especially allow it with an SNAT configuration.
This approach would also allow you to have the mentioned isolation by design, since none of the VMs would be directly exposed to the network.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask.

Yours sincerely
Jonas

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#:~:text=Using ifupdown and wpasupplicant,-These
[2] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesdn.html#pvesdn_zone_plugin_simple
 
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