On 03/29/2016 12:05 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 29 March 2016 at 12:41, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote:
My understanding is that 802.11 NAT, etc., connectivity from SL 7 to
VirtualBox to MS Win does not work because the kernel releases for SL 7 no
longer support this possibility. I know it functions in SL 6 because my
spouse still has SL 6 on her laptop (her machine is underprovisioned
effectively to run a 64 bit OS and it is not cost effective to re-provision
the machine, although the CPU is an X86-64) and this works. This is
necessary to run an application that must connect to the Internet and is not
available for native Linux, only MS Win and Mac OS X. (For those who are
curious, the application is an USA income tax preparation/paying program of
which we have used an annual edition for many years under MS Win under
VirtualBox under SL.) I have migrated my machines to SL 7.
Given this, if I instead connect using 802.3 to a 802.3 port and do not use
802.11, will the standard NAT I mention above work? My understanding
from previous responses/posts to this list is that the SL7 kernel series
still does provide this necessary support for 802.3 but not 802.11.
I have attempted to use a USB port 802.11 WNIC that is supported under Linux
and purportedly under MS Win 7; VirtualBox does redirect the USB device to
MS Win and MS Win "sees" it. However, the MS Win driver is lacking, and
unless I have Internet MS Win connectivity, I do not know how to get the MS
Win driver. Under MS Win, the driver seems to be gotten automagically from
some MS Win repository, possibly one from Microsoft. If at all possible, I
do not want to do any non-automagic systems work on MS Win, particularly as
in most cases this seems to involve regedit (editing the MS Win 'registry",
a poorly constructed and documented structure).
Any information will be appreciated; otherwise, I will need to use my wife's
SL 6 machine.
Yasha Karant
Virtual machines should be able to nat through the system to 802.11
networks. They cannot bridge to the 802.11 network.
I regret to state that what you suggest, NAT, works fine with VirtualBox
under SL 6 but does not work with SL 7. In fact, when I upgraded from
SL 6 to SL 7 is when I first discovered this -- and the information that
I believe I received on this SL list indicated that NAT to a 802.11 WNIC
on the host SL machine would not work because of changes in the kernel
from SL 6 to SL 7. If I am incorrect, please indicate how this is to be
configured on the host, VirtualBox, and the MS Win 7 guest. On my
wife's SL 6 machine, what you suggest works seamlessly with no
configuration work on my part other than to specify NAT for VirtualBox
via the VirtualBox GUI configuration screens.
