Make Proxmox VLAN aware

I’m using Proxmox as a hypervisor to run my virtual machines and use two VLANs in my home network: one for normal traffic and one separate VLAN for IoT traffic. Virtual machines should be connected to one of those networks. The normal network is typically untagged (vlan ID 20) while the IoT traffic is tagged with VLAN 21.

Configuration file: /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno1 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet manual
        bridge-ports eno1
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0
        bridge-vlan-aware yes
        bridge-vids 2-4094

auto vmbr0.20
iface vmbr0.20 inet static
        address 192.168.20.x/24
        gateway 192.168.20.1

This should result in the following Proxmox network configuration:

Proxmox host system network configuration

Now you can easily add a network adapter to a virtual machine and tag it with the correct VLAN.

Virtual machine network adapter configuration, including tagged VLAN.