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Proxmox on Laptop, Network Setup

I am trying to install and setup proxmox on laptop and use it as daily driver. I want to make network setup that can use both ethernet and WiFi, whichever is available and i want VMs to be able to access LAN because some things dont work otherwise (like NDI). I have writen config file that makes 2 bridges and every VM would have 2 interfaces. I havent installed Proxmox yet because i dont want to mess things up (it wouldn’t be first time :) ). My question is does this config look ok and are there some recomendations.

/etc/network/interfaces


<span style="color:#323232;">auto lo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">iface lo inet loopback
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Ethernet interface
</span><span style="color:#323232;">auto eth0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">iface eth0 inet manual
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># WiFi interface
</span><span style="color:#323232;">auto wlan0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">iface wlan0 inet manual
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Ethernet bridge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">auto vmbr0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">iface vmbr0 inet dhcp
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bridge_ports eth0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bridge_stp off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bridge_fd 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># WiFi bridge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">auto vmbr1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">iface vmbr1 inet dhcp
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bridge_ports wlan0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bridge_stp off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bridge_fd 0
</span>
eldavi ,

watch out for your battery.

i don’t do proxmox; but i do a lot of virtualization through kvm/qemu on my own laptop and the battery can take a beating if you don’t mitigate it somehow. i’ve had this laptop less than 6 months and the battery condition is already at 67%.

i’m lucky in that i got this laptop from a linux company so i can can order replacement batteries; but most people don’t (willingly) have this luxury anymore.

scholar ,

When you say you want to use proxmox as your daily driver, what sort of things are you wanting to do with it? Are you going to be spending most of your time inside a WM, and want to be able to switch to a different VM? I’m struggling to see your use case.

RealBot OP ,

I would do everything in VMs, mostly Linux and probably one Windows. Proxmox would be only for managing VMs. I want everything in VMs because it’s more flexible for partitioning storage and i can have both Linux and Windows runing at the same time (which can’t be done with dualboot). I am student of computer science so i use it for programming, both for college and side projects. Sometimes there are a lot of programs i have so OS kind of gets bloated, not so much from performance standpoint but just mental overhead of having 10, 20, 30 programs and having to keep in mind what program needs what dependencies, env variables, etc… so i want to kind of group them to VMs and CTs.

exu ,

Have you thought about trying QubesOS instead, as it’s pretty much built for this purpose?

anzo ,

And check their device compatibility list. Also, you’ll need plenty of RAM.

scholar ,

You’d probably be better off picking a normal distro and then running QEMU to run Windows or other VMs. Proxmox is more comparable to VMware ESXi in that it is designed for running server VMs and managed through a web ui.

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