hi, yes, the wlan card seems fully connected. in virtualbox 4 or 5, when you create a virtual machine, in the network settings panel, select the bridge mode and the physical nic you want to use, like in this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/FYr4BZs.png (in italian, but clear I hope...) it works even in open source edition of virtualbox and if the host is connected to a wpa2 enterprise secured wifi network. have a nice day, francesco Il 29/10/2015 06:33, Yasha Karant ha scritto: > Hi Francesco, > > I just installed VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.6_103037_el7-1.x86_64.rpm along > with Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.6-103037.vbox-extpack > and the MS Win tools package of the above VirtualBox release to no avail. > > What do you mean by "wifi adapter must be fully connected on your > linux host"? > > On the SL7 host, ifconfig -a shows: > > wlp61s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.[redacted] netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast > 192.168.[redacted] > inet6 [redacted] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> > ether [redacted] txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 45054 bytes 47174187 (44.9 MiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 28494 bytes 3464767 (3.3 MiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > with the above redacted just in the event of any attempted compromises > from any inappropriate use of this public list > (not by any legitimate subscribers). However, all of the redacted > data is valid and wlp61s0 is fully functional. > > Is this "fully connected"? > > As for KVM, I have other reservations about this on a workstation (not > hardened server with external firewall defense) -- but that is a separate > subject. > > Yasha Karant > > On 10/28/2015 12:54 AM, Francesco M. Taurino wrote: >> hi yasha, >> >> kvm windows 7/8/10 guests can be a bit slow in graphic applications, >> but quite usable >> if you need cpu/memory raw power. >> >> you can use virtualbox, and bridge the virtual lan card of your guest >> to a physical lan >> or a wifi adapter. the wifi adapter must be fully connected on your >> linux host. >> >> ftaurino >> >> Il 27/10/2015 10:31, Karel Lang AFD ha scritto: >>> Hi, >>> just q. (i surely missed it in earlier conv.) - why can't you use >>> KVM as a virtualization layer? >>> >>> I use KVM on servers, workstations, laptops and i find it has all i >>> need. >>> >>> I just missed thing like 'shared folder' between host/guest like eg. >>> vbox has, but this can be remedied by compiling/turning on the 9pFS >>> in kernel, if the 10Gbps of the NATed internal networking with >>> virtio driver is not enough. >>> >>>