Trouble with configuring network

KwR41230

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Jan 10, 2025
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Hello,

New to Proxmox, but have been using different flavors of linux, VMs, and networking gear for quite some time now. For some reason I cannot seem to get my Proxmox to connect to anything on my subnet. On the initial install, I set the IP to a static IP (10.86.1.100), which falls in line with the allowable IPs on my router (10.86.1.1). Set the DNS to 1.1.1.1 and I don't have a domain name so I just set it to some default Proxmox.test.

I am attempting to run this as just a test lab server to play around with until I finish up building my server rack with the dedicated hardware for the server with redundant NAS drives etc.. I have a MacBook Pro M3 Max running UTM for my VMs with the Proxmox-ve_8.3-1.iso

Once the Proxmox boots, it tells me to navigate to the https://10.86.1.100:8006/ but the web GUI does not load. I also cannot ping my router, or any other devices that should also be on the same subnet. I will post some screen shots of the
Code:
/etc/network/interfaces
along with what I get from entering
Code:
ip a

Any help would be appreciated!!

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The screenshots look fine to me.

Since you are running under another hypervisor, it could perhaps be a setting on that hypervisor rather than in PVE. Desktop hypervisors often restrict network access in various ways by default, such as only allowing access to/from the host they are running on or requiring the guest to use DHCP. I'm not familiar with UTM so can't comment further than that.
 
The screenshots look fine to me.

Since you are running under another hypervisor, it could perhaps be a setting on that hypervisor rather than in PVE. Desktop hypervisors often restrict network access in various ways by default, such as only allowing access to/from the host they are running on or requiring the guest to use DHCP. I'm not familiar with UTM so can't comment further than that.
Thanks for the reply! So as far as my desktop restricting network access, I am not sure how else to go about testing that. If it would only allow access to the device it is running on, I would think I should be able to ping my laptop running the VM, but it times out as unreachable. I have other Linux servers on my network running Ubuntu Linux, multiple Raspi's, and other VMs running various other flavors of linux from UTM, all of which can at least ping 1.1.1.1, and ping my router.

I was wondering if there was some issue with running it from my MacBook since it's not getting a dedicated ethernet into a NIC. But the VM should be configuring it to make it "look" like an ethernet connection. I have re-installed ProxMox probably half a dozen times and still I am stumped.
 

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