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