How to connect wireless network adapter to VMWare workstation

Question

How can I connect wireless network adapter to wmvare workstation   My Host OS is Win Seven Ultimate  my Guest OS is Fedora 13  amp  my VMWare version is 6 5 0  I m running win seven on my Dell Vostro A860 laptop  amp  my wireless network adapter is Atheros

User · Answer

Here is a simple way to connect with your WIFI -

Click on Edit from the menu section
Virtual Network Editor
Change Settings
Add Network
Select a network name
Select Bridged option in VMnet Information -> Bridge to : Automatic
Apply

That's it. You might be asked password to connect. Add it and you would be able to connect to the network.

Kind Regards,

Rahul Tilloo

User · Answer

Since there is only one WiFi hardware on the computer its not possible to connect one WiFi hardware to multiple WiFi networks  if you want to that I think you have to map WiFi hardware to guest OS and how host you ll have to use some other hardware  may be Ethernet  but I m sure that it will work in that way as no VM software allow us to allocate Hardware to Guest except for USB  you can also get USB WiFI and allocate that to VM only

User · Answer

Change your network adapter to a bridged connection  this will directly connect to your computers physical network

User · Answer

I also encountered a similar problem  I run Ubuntu 11 04 on VMware on a Windows 7 host OS  Virtual machines can t expose the physical wireless cards  All of that is using a virtualization layer

User · Answer

Add a local loop network in your normal PC  search google how to  Click start -  type  ncpa cpl  hit enter to open network connections  While pressing Ctrl key  select both your wireless and recently created local loop network  right click on it and create the bridge  Now in virtual network editor in vmware  select the network with type  Bridged  and change Bridged to option to the recently created bridge    You will then have access to network via wifi card

User · Answer

Use a Linux Live cd usb and boot an that to be able to directly connect to your wifi hardware or use linux as the main OS with direct access to the wifi card and then use windows as a guest os  I know that this maybe not the ideal way but it will work

User · Answer

Workstation doesn t have a wireless NIC type  so direct wireless hardware access is out  If you just want to access through the extant host wireless connection  bridging is your answer   I think the only way to get a wireless NIC dedicated to the VM would be using a USB wireless NIC as a USB-passthrough device on the VM  When you have Workstation running and a USB device plugged in  it should give you an option to change whether that device is connected to the host or to the VM

[networking] How to connect wireless network adapter to VMWare workstation?

Examples related to networking

Examples related to wireless

Examples related to vmware-workstation