I have one Qube which works with my VPN AppVM and one which doesn’t. (One successfully connects through the VPN AppVM and the other can’t get a connection.) How can I see the details on these Qubes to compare and figure out what’s wrong?
In the Settings they look the same except for being 1 number different for IP address and they are different colors. They are both based on the same template VM.
The working one is a clone of the built-in yellow Personal Qube and I am not sure about the non-working one. I think that I created it with default options.
I could just delete the non-working one and make more clones of the working one, but I thought I could learn a few things from this confusion.
Same output as the non-working VM. It doesn’t even show the PING sending packets line.
In the working VPN, it shows the sending line and hangs there for a bit, and then it shows a summary that says 100% packet loss. I tried it five times and it’s always complete packet loss. The last 2 times were after I loaded webpages in that same VM in Firefox ESR.
Yes, I have been calling them the working VM and non-working VM because in one I can browse the web and in the other I can’t.
It says “Temporary failure in name resolution.” very quickly after entering the command.
It seems that my vpnVM has sys-net under “Networking”.
It hangs and shows 100% packet loss.
New information is that I retried ping in the non-working VM and this time it doesn’t give “Temporary failure in name resolution.” quickly. Instead it hangs and gives 100% packet loss.
Prior to this tutorial, I followed other methods for a VPN AppVM but could not get them to work. ProtonVPN seems more difficult to set up than others. Some of the methods used Fedora and network manager.
This tutorial for Debian 10 was the only one that worked enough that I could surf on the VPN. I thought it was only some trivial problem with my other AppVM that makes it not work too?
I’m not sure what is causing the problem. There are many variables in setting up a VPN in a VM. Have you tried the following guide?
I don’t think it would require that much modification to get ProtonVPN working. You can get the ProtonVPN config files here…
I would also like to echo @fsflover and say that your VPN VM should be connected to sys-firewall → sys-net… not directly to sys-net. sys-firewall will help make sure that any firewall rules in your VPN VM are properly applied and prevent memory attacks due to sys-net being connected to your network hardware.
You can also try to simply install the ProtonVPN app in a VM that has “provides network” checked in the advanced tab of the settings. Configure the app with a kill switch, autostart, etc. See if you can get that running. If it works, you can limit yourself to certain servers and configure the VM firewall to only allow those IPs to connect.
Yeah, I might try it, but I spent so many hours just getting this to work And this way I can autoconnect.
My question here is not really how to get the VPN working, but what is different about my one non-working Qube. Isn’t there some way to output a whole lot of settings so I can compare the one Qube with the other?
Well… it doesn’t seem like it’s really working though. The app has an autoconnect setting.
Regarding your AppVM that doesn’t work… it might be due in part to something that isn’t configured properly in your VPN VM. The VPN VM wasn’t pinging properly when you tested it and even the “working VM” had problems.
I’m not aware of a generic output of all possible VM settings that would account for your network issues.
Sometimes it’s easier to just scrap what doesn’t work and start with a new VM from a clean template.
Yes, now I am more worried than I was at the start. But it seems like a problem with my entire system not the VPN VM? Since I have problems pinging from sys-firewall too.
And this way I can autoconnect.