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I have a laptop running Ubuntu linux. Since upgrading to the latest version, Jaunty, I can no longer get either my internal wifi or my USB wifi to work reliably with WPA enabled on my router.

But the USB wifi works perfectly in the Win XP guest running under Virtual Box 2.2.2 when I turn off the NAT networking mode for the guest machine - btw, NAT mode when on works perfectly for sharing the host's hardwired connection.

I'd also like to be able to share my USB printer and my USB Sansa mp3 player which appears as a pair of USB drives in MSC mode. The printer and Sansa work perfectly under the guest Win XP but neither work properly on the host since 'upgrading' to Jaunty.

What networking mode should I use in Virtual Box and what steps would I need to take on the guest and host to 'reverse' share the wifi connection and hopefully simultaneously share the guest's USB printer and USB drives?

I'm sorry to have bothered anyone with this post. After more experimentation it appears that a VirtualBox "Host only" adapter does what I need. It creates the adapter on the client with a connected interface on the host. The description in the docs had left me slightly confused by calling it a loopback device and I had visions of nothing on the client side. I still haven't sorted the details to make it all work but that has nothing to do with VirtualBox.