> > 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 -- Regards, Balasubramaniam Natarajan www.etutorshop.com/moodle/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
