Can my hotspot send Internet into my hypervisor machine?

[eiger3970]

I have no Internet at home.

My mobile has a hotspot which lets me use my home desktop.

How do I get Internet to my home Hypervisor machine?

I could connect a Unifi Nano into the Hypervisor machine's NIC.

I could connect a Wi-Fi NIC into the Hypervisor machine's MOBO. This would be easiest as this is what I have done with my home desktop.

Not sure if I could bridge my home Desktop to the Hypervisor machine's NIC?

pfSense is not allowing me to ping the hypervisor machine from the home desktop.

[DaddyGo]

@eiger3970 said in Can my hotspot send Internet into my hypervisor machine?:

I could connect a Wi-Fi NIC into the Hypervisor machine's MOBO. This would be easiest as this is what I have done with my home desktop.

Hi,
This could be a solution

but this whole mobile phone hotspot thing is a very weak solution....
(somewhat suitable for "setting up" a laptop internet (browsing, emails, etc.)

-if you want to solve your VM WAN from a mobile hotspot, so this is already a concern, especially if you want to run pfSense on the VM

@eiger3970 "Not sure if I could bridge my home Desktop to the Hypervisor machine's NIC?"

I would buy a very cheap 5 port switch for this purpose.

[eiger3970]

I have a 24-port Switch for my home LAN.
I rarely need Internet at home, just a little on the home Desktop.
I need Internet on the hypervisor machine to download and install ZoneMinder. Usually no Internet at all.
I thought a proper setup would be a good habit.
I run pfSense as the virtualised router for the home LAN. Just having some trouble now after messing around with Wi-Fi WAN. Deciding what works best.

[DaddyGo]

@eiger3970 said in Can my hotspot send Internet into my hypervisor machine?:

I need Internet on the hypervisor machine to download and install ZoneMinder. Usually no Internet at all.

Yup easy then, download it to your desktop and transfer it to your VM with a flash drive

[eiger3970]

@daddygo Not so easy. Most installs are walkthroughs to install onto the machine.
I haven't found an .iso file I can download to the home desktop and transfer over via scp to the hypervisor machine.

[DaddyGo]

@eiger3970 said in Can my hotspot send Internet into my hypervisor machine?:

Not so easy.

Then buy one of these devices for the VM...
https://www.linksys.com/us/p/P-AE6000/
https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/usb-adapter/

[eiger3970]

Thanks. Yes, I already have a AORUS GC-WBAX200 PCIe Card.
The machine with the hypervisor Proxmox seems to have trouble installing this.
I think I've confused something between the hypervisor and the virtualised router pfSense.

[DaddyGo]

@eiger3970 said in Can my hotspot send Internet into my hypervisor machine?:

The machine with the hypervisor Proxmox seems to have trouble installing this.

it will help: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough