My host PC is running windows 8 and I'm accessing internet using the wireless connection (as I work in a room which doesn't have wired connection).
I have a VM machine (created using the free vm ware player with guest operating system: windows 2008 r2) with network adapter setting set to Bridged. I cannot see my wireless router in network connections.
NB: I tried the following so far:
1) I have enabled wireless from the windows services features on my guest PC (VM)
2) Created a Microsoft loop back on host PC
3) Allowed other network users to connect through this computers connection and set the home networking connection to the loop back created in the previous step
4) Changed the VMsetting (Network adapter) to Bridged.
As you said, the vm creates automatically a "bridge".
So if the wifi is active and working in your Win8, the vm will automatically use the wifi connection.
Just notice, inside your vm, the wifi connection is invisible, because masked as a wired one.
The "bridge" created is in fact a masked connection between your wifi and the wired network inside vm.
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I am trying to create a Linux virtual machine hosted in Windows 10 that has a unique IP address from the host. I understand that a bridged connection is required for this but can not find simple instructions for how to accomplish this.
When I change the network settings in Virtualbox to 'Bridged Adapter' and set the Promiscuous mode to 'allow all' the virtual machine cannot connect to the internet. I assume there is something in the Windows host that needs to be done but can not find what that is.
I'm learning some WiFi security stuff, and I have installed Ubuntu in my VMWare Workstation 11 environment. My host OS is Windows 7 which is connected to my home network over Wifi
Now what I need is in the guest OS (i.e. Ubuntu), I should be able to enable Wireless access (so that I can run Wifi network scans etc). I bridged my network and laso used NAT, both of which give me access to my home network via my Host but they appear as wired connections in Ubuntu. As I understand, this is only possible by using a USB WiFi dongle.
I have purchased a USB WiFi dongle now (it should arrive in a couple of days), but I'm not sure how can I get my Ubuntu guest OS to use that USB Wifi adapter while keeping my Host OS on the built-in Wifi adapter.
Do I simple plug in the USB network adapter into my laptop and it will be recognised in Ubuntu or do I need to make some settings in VMware?
Thanks in advance
I got this to work, posting my answer for posterity
I bought a TP Link WN823N USB Wifi adapter.
1) Keep your host Wifi on. Plug in the USB, let it download the drivers
2) Once installed, power on your VM
3) Open VMWare, right click on your VM -> Removable Devices
Here you should see your USB adapter. Select Connect (Disconnect from Host). This will now connect the USB Wifi adapter to your Linux VM and viola - it should just work!
Essentially what this does is the WiFi adapter will be connected to the VM and disconnected from the host, and the host can continue to use the built-in WiFi.
I have a Windows Server 2012 with only one ethernet card, and a VMWare workstation 11 installed on this server box.
I need to run multiple VMWares on this server box and connect to these VMWares from other machines within the same network of the server box. Thus, I need to assign an individual IP address to each VMWare.
I tried to make the network setting in each VMWare be bridged, but I can't ping the VMWares from the host system (the server box).
Is there any missing configuration?
Do I need to have more than one ethernet card? Or can more than one VMWare take different IPs shared with the host?
I'm trying to connect an ubuntu 12.04 to my local network + internet, i would like it to be directly reachable from the local network, NAT interface don't do it so i tried setting up a bridge (in the virtualbox GUI). But then i can access any other host on the LAN from the guest, but i can't access internet, the DHCP seems to work fine since my guest OS gets an IP in the correct range and with the correct mask. However i can't even ping the router which connect me to the internet (the same machine as the DHCP server).
here's my configuration:
host machine: linux mint debian edition X86-64
guests: win7 64 and ubuntu server 12.04 x86-64 (both have the same issue)
router-gateway-dhcp: livebox from orange ISP
host network interface: wifi usb dongle with chipset RTL8191SU (which works fine for my host)
I know the bridged mode isn't supported by all wireless adapter, but isn't it weird that i can access local network but not the internet?
maybe the problem comes from the gateway itself?
any advice would be very appreciated
In general, there is no problem in using VirtualBox in bridged mode on a laptop. I use it very often and on different platforms, yet it can be related to your network adapter.
Can you try to debug your network by using tcpdump (if familiar) or wireshark? I once had the problem that the mac address got rejected by the router. Can you check if the router is permissive for unauthorized mac addresses or anything alike?
I recently got a new Windows 7 (64 bit) laptop at work and I installed the trial version of VMware Workstation 7.1 and setup two guest OS'es - Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Professional both of which are 64 bit.
The guest VMs CANNOT ping the host OS when Vmnet0 bridging is set to automatic or exclusively bound to the wireless adapter (under virtual network editor). However the Host system can ping and access guest VM admin shares under this setup.
Now when vmnet0 is bridged to the ethernet adapter exclusively, the guest VMs are able to connect to host OS.
Until recently i have been using VMware server 2.0 installed on Windows XP (host OS) laptop with two guest OS, Win XP and Win 2003 (32 bit) and vmnet0 bridging was set to "bridged to an automatically chosen adapter". I never had any issues with the VMs connecting with host when i was connected to the network via ethernet or wireless adapter.
According to VMware, wireless adapter bridging is supported from v4.0. Is there any thing that needs to be configured on the wireless adapter in Windows 7 or in Vmware workstation to make bridging work successfully from guest to host as well?
Wireless adapter model is - intel centrino ultimate N6300.
Since you don't have an answer yet, I'll try suggesting something a little off the wall...
Does your wireless access point have station isolation turned on? This feature of APs restricts wifi clients from talking to each other. They can only talk to the AP and then on to the wired connection of the AP. I've seen more and more corporate environments turning this on.