[Ilugc] Can Guest OS accessing Host WiFi Card Directly ?
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:26:55 +0530
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Bridging through the network interface of the Host OS, is the most
common case for the Guest OS to connect to the 'net (when you want the
Guest OS to be visible w/o NAT)
In VirtualBox, you can bridge a Guest OS with the Host OS WiFi
interface where in the Host OS acts as the wpa supplicant and the
auth. is done by the Host OS. The Guest OS still sees an ethernet
iface card - the bridging is done at the Host OS level.
Is this what you are trying to accomplish?
No I want guest to see wifi card with iwconfig command rather than
ifconfig.
I suggest you join the VBox mailing list and web forums. It is more
likely for you to get specific answers there.
However, before you pull out your wallet for an USB WiFi dongle ...
as an alternate, IIRC Linux KVM can pass the HW PCI bus address to
the guest. I have no experience with it though.
Some ref. links that might be of help.
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http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/exposing-host-pci-devices-guest>
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http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel6/rhel_6_virtualization/rhel_6_virtualization_chap-Virtualization-PCI_passthrough.html>
Good luck,
As always -- you can share the solution after you have got it working :)
BTW - do not snip the From line - it identifies who wrote what.
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