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Sorry as Im sure you get these questions a lot, Im new to linux and virtual box and I have downloaded virtual box and whenever I boot up Kali there is no wifi. Ive tried searching these forums and all I find is people telling me to use NAT Network but Virtual Box tells me it is an invalid setting. I am connected to a wireless network on a Dell XPS. if you need any other info let me know.

A Virtualbox guest is a completely different environment that the host PC. The guest OS sees completely different hardware than the host OS sees (except for the CPU).

All the network adapter cards that Virtualbox presents in the guest environment are virtual Ethernet cards. None of them are Wi-fi cards. So you cannot monitor Wi-fi using the Virtualbox network cards.

You can monitor Wi-Fi if you use a USB Wi-fi adapter you supply, and use Virtualbox's USB filters and USB basics and troubleshooting to pipe the USB Wi-Fi adapter into the guest. Then the guest will see Wi-Fi.

I have never seen the default NAT setting marked as an invalid setting. It is the default setting because it is the one which gives the guest a network connection without the user having to do anything. Basically it allows the guest to share the host's connection, whatever that connection is. If the host can connect to the Internet, so can the guest.

I haven't tried Kali, but every Linux guest I have used automatically connects using the host's network.
It certainly has an Internet connection.

BillG wrote:I have never seen the default NAT setting marked as an invalid setting. It is the default setting because it is the one which gives the guest a network connection without the user having to do anything. Basically it allows the guest to share the host's connection, whatever that connection is. If the host can connect to the Internet, so can the guest.

I haven't tried Kali, but every Linux guest I have used automatically connects using the host's network.

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It certainly has an Internet connection.

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i mean ill try again but it wasnt working before, thats why I was asking