[pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface

2009-04-17 Thread Chris Flugstad
Im trying to run a vm of pfsense in windows, but be able to use the onboard wireless card(atheros chip) as opt1.  anyone succesfully done this?  I don't need to use the wireless on the windows xp side as i have a ethernet connection or a evdo usb device.  Any thoughts or help would rock. So fa

Re: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface

2009-04-17 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface Im trying to run a vm of pfsense in windows, but be able to use the onboard wireless card(atheros chip) as opt1. anyone succesfully done this? I don't need to use the wireless o

Re: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface

2009-04-17 Thread RB
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:02, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > I really wish it would virtualize wireless cards like that as I could get > rid of my access point at home and just add a card into my system. Both KVM and Xen allow you to directly map a PCI slot into a client's namespace. Right now I'm run

Re: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface

2009-04-18 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
7:04 PM To: Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:02, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: I really wish it would virtualize wireless cards like that as I could get rid of my access point at home and just add a card into my system. Both K

Re: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface

2009-04-18 Thread RB
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 09:05, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > KVM and Xen only work on CPUs that have the para-virtualization extensions. > If yer using older hardware, you HAVE to use either bare metal or a standard > virtualizer like VMWare In a word: no. I haven't tried virtualizing PCI devices on n

Re: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboard wifi as an interface

2009-04-18 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
the extended virtualization such as tagging a CPI port to a VM image is only available with a para-virtualization CPU -- From: "RB" Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:25 PM To: Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] vmware appliance using onboa