Thank you for your reply. > it has to do with WiFi packets being slightly different than stock Ethernet packets
Certainly, as you say, there are differences in both packets, such as the handling of src/dest MAC addresses, etc. Best regards. P.S. Machine translation is amazing these days. I cannot live without this ! :-) 2020年7月8日(水) 1:30 Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org>: > On 2020-07-07 11:26, ryotaro kobayashi wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > I'm from japan and using machine translation, so I apologize if it's hard > to read. > > I am currently trying to build a virtual environment using Ubuntu and kvm. > > However, I found out from the following page that the virtual machine > cannot use the bridge network because I am using a wireless network. > > https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking > > I am having trouble with this because my PC is using a wireless LAN. > > On that page it says "wireless interfaces cannot be attached to a Linux > host bridge", I Can you tell me why this is so? > > Is it a limitation of the NIC driver for the wireless LAN? > Or is it a limitation of libvirt? > > > Hi! While I no longer recall the details myself, it has to do with WiFi > packets being slightly different than stock Ethernet packets, and WiFi > simply can't support bridging. While there are, if memory serves, some > interfaces that allow you to work around this, it's really a protocol issue > and neither libvirt or a driver's fault. Perhaps someone else either > remembers more details, or is willing to come back with something m,ore > specific, but I thought I'd reply so you at least had something. > > -Ken > > P.S. The machine translation worked very, very well. >
