On 10/19/2015 04:53 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Thank you for the kind reply; however, you seem to be addressing a > somewhat different situation. > > I am not virtualizing servers or anything like that. For this use, I > do not need a bare iron hypervisor that then can run various > OS (supervisor) virtual machine images. I need a real Linux host (SL > 7) that can run MS Windows under it as a guest. ... > Does anyone have a solution for using the host SL 7 802.11 (wireless, > wifi) ISP network connection to provide the NAT used by VirtualBox? > (At the university, > we are compelled to use Eduroam; at home, our ISP is Verizon -- both > over 802.11 .) KVM/libvirt virtualizes Win7 guests just as well as it does servers. I use it, but with wired and wireless connections, both 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz) and 802.11a (5GHz) wireless NICs. The Win7 guest doesn't care and doesn't see the difference. There are a number of HOWTOs out there showing how to get Win7 up as a guest, including with virtio disk, network, and video. You will need the virtio driver CD; google for it, it's easy to find. You need to do a bit of googling; all the information you need is already out there in easily accessible form on the KVM website.