On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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" >
It means that the code may not be in the official repository - it may be lying in someone's branch. I did not check this so please make sure if that is the case. It is best to contact qemu mainling list or IRC for getting more information and using this. > >> 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. > Also qemu is far better than Virtual Box considering guest CPU performance. So use it if you don't have any strong reason for not coming out of Virtual Box. > >> >> 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 > lol :) > -- > Regards, > Balasubramaniam Natarajan > www.etutorshop.com/moodle/ > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
