pikvm/pages/tailscale.md

Tailscale VPN

You can use Tailscale to access Pi-KVM on the internal network. This is a convenient and free (for private use) tool for organizing a small VPN network.

Installation

On the Pi-KVM side

1. Use this commands:

# rw
# pacman -Syy
# pacman -S tailscale
# systemctl enable --now tailscaled
# tailscale up

2. Follow the link to authorize this installation.
3. After success, perform soft reboot using reboot command to make sure that everything will work correctly.
4. Perform command ip addr show tailscale0 to view the Tailscale IP address.

On the workstation side

• Download and install tailscale for your OS: https://tailscale.com/download
• Check tha page https://login.tailscale.com/admin/machines to view your VPN network.
• Follow the URL in the web browser: https://<tailscale_kvm_ip> and you will see Pi-KVM web interface.