On 03/29/2016 12:05 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 29 March 2016 at 12:41, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> My understanding is that 802.11 NAT, etc., connectivity from SL 7 to
>> VirtualBox to MS Win does not work because the kernel releases for SL 7 no
>> longer support this possibility.  I know it functions in SL 6 because my
>> spouse still has SL 6 on her laptop (her machine is underprovisioned
>> effectively to run a 64 bit OS and it is not cost effective to re-provision
>> the machine, although the CPU is an X86-64) and this works.  This is
>> necessary to run an application that must connect to the Internet and is not
>> available for native Linux, only MS Win and Mac OS X.  (For those who are
>> curious, the application is an USA income tax preparation/paying program of
>> which we have used an annual edition for many years under MS Win under
>> VirtualBox under SL.)  I have migrated my machines to SL 7.
>>
>> Given this, if I instead connect using 802.3 to a 802.3 port and do not use
>> 802.11, will the standard NAT I mention above work?     My understanding
>> from previous responses/posts to this list is that the SL7 kernel series
>> still does provide this necessary support for 802.3 but not 802.11.
>>
>> I have attempted to use a USB port 802.11 WNIC that is supported under Linux
>> and purportedly under MS Win 7; VirtualBox does redirect the USB device to
>> MS Win and MS Win "sees" it.  However, the MS Win driver is lacking, and
>> unless I have Internet MS Win connectivity, I do not know how to get the MS
>> Win driver.  Under MS Win, the driver seems to be gotten automagically from
>> some MS Win repository, possibly one from Microsoft.  If at all possible, I
>> do not want to do any non-automagic systems work on MS Win, particularly as
>> in most cases this seems to involve regedit (editing the MS Win 'registry",
>> a poorly constructed and documented structure).
>>
>> Any information will be appreciated; otherwise, I will need to use my wife's
>> SL 6 machine.
>>
>> Yasha Karant
> Virtual machines should be able to nat through the system to 802.11
> networks. They cannot bridge to the 802.11 network.
>
I regret to state that what you suggest, NAT, works fine with VirtualBox 
under SL 6 but does not work with SL 7.  In fact, when I upgraded from 
SL 6 to SL 7 is when I first discovered this -- and the information that 
I believe I received on this SL list indicated that NAT to a 802.11 WNIC 
on the host SL machine would not work because of changes in the kernel 
from SL 6 to SL 7.  If I am incorrect, please indicate how this is to be 
configured on the host, VirtualBox, and the MS Win 7 guest.  On my 
wife's SL 6 machine, what you suggest works seamlessly with no 
configuration work on my part other than to specify NAT for VirtualBox 
via the VirtualBox GUI configuration screens.