[Ilugc] Can Guest OS accessing Host WiFi Card Directly ?
- From: bala150985@xxxxxxxxx (Balasubramaniam Natarajan)
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:44:00 +0530
Without giving the specific use case it is not possible to provide
ideas. You can access net in VirtualBox guest if host has internet
connection. This should be sufficient for most use case.
Well my case is I want to practise setting up Adhoc network using WLAN.
Since I don't have may wlan cards as spare I though I would be able to set
up three or more virtual machine using the wireless card in bridge mode to
accomplish the same.
Qemu has PCI pass through. I am not sure whether that is mainlined or
will it work for you. If you are geeky enough to try just give it a
try and write about it if successful.
I did not get the point "whether that is mainlined"
If you have ample time and knowledge use libpciaccess to access the
Wifi card from user space (i.e., from within Virtual Box and let the
guest know about the PCI card). For this you may need to modify
Virtual Box source code and also the guest kernel (may be a Linux
kernel module). I don't have much info than this and I am not sure how
much time it will take. I guess it may take more than 3 months for a
normal developer doing this work full time (If virtual box source code
is needed to be modified and a linux kernel module has to be written).
I would wish to be that geeky however I am not :-( at least for now. As
playing with GNU/Linux is just my hobby.
If it is based on USB you need not do anything big - just choose a
menu in the Virtual Box to associate the USB device to the guest.
I know this route from googling, It involves purchase of WLAN usb dongles
:-(. "Ella may OC yaaa way venuma" :-D lol
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Regards,
Balasubramaniam Natarajan
www.etutorshop.com/moodle/
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