On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Although the KVM solution discussed here may work, the description of this
> in operation appears to be a true
> hypervisor even when only used to run, say, MS Windows as an application
> environment virtual machine under SL.  That is, this solution is not the
> same "in spirit" as is VirtualBox.  On a hard 802.3 wired connection,
> VirtualBox does provide Internet access to the outside world from the guest;
> this seems to be a failure on a 802.11 ISP wifi connection.  JHas anyone
> used VMware-Player-12.0.0-2985596.x86_64.bundle on a SL7 host with a MS Win
> guest?
>
> If so, is the "free" version stripped of sufficient features as not to be
> useful in a "production" environment?  I do not need merely to look at
> pretty pictures of a running guest environment; I need to access the
> Internet. to share files (e.g., docx, pptx, etc.) between the Linux host and
> the MS Windows guest, and to access both USB devices and the DVD drive of
> the host on the guest.
>
> My institution cannot afford the US$249 for the VMware Workstation license,
> and I cannot justify the expenditure of research funds. However, VMware
> player is licensed for free for non-commercial private use (mine).
>
> I do note that my query on the failure of VirtualBox to work with 802.11
> host Linux networks and thus supply a connection to the guest OS within
> VirtualBox now has had 46 views on the VirtualBox Linux host "forum" without
> a reply -- evidently, this is a problem with the current VirtualBox for
> which no one has a viable solution -- hence my interest in VMware Player.
>
> Yasha Karant

I googled the subject and hit this one:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=760
(Using bridged networking with a wireless NIC)

Akemi