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Something strange is happenning: just by starting VirtualBox, without running any virtual machine, my wireless network adapter stops working.

If I run ipconfig/all, everything looks exactly the same but the interface is no longer working.

If I keep VirtualBox running and reset the interface by doing:
followed by
network connections work form both the host and the guest.

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium as the host and VirtualBox 1.5.2

Any ideas?

zorko: complete mystery.

I would try to upgrade WiFi drivers first.

Windows Upgrade upgraded the driver to a newer version just yesterday. Same problem.

I imagine that VirtualBox must be doing lots of messy things to get guest machines to run in the host, but still breaking the host network connection without even running a virtual machine seems to me quite wrong.

i was hoping there would be a solution here...

same thing with me.

i'm running winxp sp3 as a host with a belkin usb2 wifi dongle.

as soon as i start virtual box 1.62, my network connection drops. it seems like vbox is interfering with the wifi driver somehow.

isn't there any kind of configuration thing i can work out to avoid this conflict?
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after closing vbox, i can repair the connection and my wifi comes back... but this is kind of a big deal. HELP!

jin

p.s. otherwise though, virtualbox is AMAZING! i tried qemu and even with the kqemu virtualization accelerator, it was very finicky... the mouse moved haltingly and it seemed that the guest app would free for a second or two every now and then. it was i'd say 95% functional but it was just irritating enough to make the thing basicaly unusable.

but virtual box flies like a champ! i actually can't believe how well this works and i can't believe i didn't know about it until now!

thanks to sun micro and everyone who helps make this happen. AMAZING!

I am having the same issue. Has there been any movement on finding a cause? My wi-fi just stops working when Virtualbox is even run. If I disconnect and try to reconnect, Windows says it gets no reply from the access point.

Has there been any success determining what is causing this?

What mode is your NIC set to for your guest machines?

I use Wireless all the time w/ mine and have no issues...

While waiting for a real solution, I think a little .bat should do it with :

netsh interface set interface "Wireless Network Connection" disabled
netsh interface set interface "Wireless Network Connection" enabled