How Configure Network For Bridged Equivalent With Wireless Host Adapter

[Claude9]

I have Virtualbox installed on Windows 10 Host which uses wireless adapter. My guest system is Oracle Linux which is using NAT. It can reach the internet and the host. I wanted to switch to bridged so the host could reach the guest, but it does not work. I have read numerous posts about this scenario and hoped for a work around. I did not find one. Can someone provide clear configuration instructions (since my network expertise is terrible) that preserve internet access and access from windows host to linux client?

[scottgus1]

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Bridged might be made to work over Wi-Fi where it normally fails if you set a correct static IP address in the VM that matches the IP range and subnet mask that the host gets from the network.

Example: The network hands out 192.168.1.### IP addresses and 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, with 192,168,1,1 gateway. Set the VM OS to a static IP address, 192.168.1.### (where ### here is an unused IP address on the network), 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, 192.168.1.1 gateway.

If a correct static IP address does not make Bridged work over Wi-Fi, then you can go with two networks in the VM: NAT as original, and the second network Host-Only. Note that in this workaround case any access to the VM from the network must come through NAT via port forwarding. Host-Only is only between the host and the VM.

Or you can get a USB Wi-Fi adapter and pass the adapter into the VM directly using USB basics and troubleshooting