I understand from this statement that it is possible to install a Wifi adapter directly in the guest OS (although one takes it away from the host in the process).Typically VBox uses the WIFI adapter as part of the host. A shared resource that it attaches to using a special driver. Once you take it away from the host and install it in the guest VirtualBox no longer controls it. It then becomes a NIC that you would configure with the guest OS.
vbox4me2 says:
I understand from this statement that it is not possible to install a Wifi adapter directly in the guest OS (although vbox4me2 may have been commenting specifically on the configuration described in the posting to which he was responding).The adapter you see inside a VM is a emulated one, you can't see or access the real Host adapter.
All of the type options for NIC are Ethernet drivers, so, if Perryg is right, I will presumably not be accessing the Wifi adapter through a NIC. But when I do lshw -C network (on a different VM, actually, running on the same host), I don't even see a Wifi adapter, so I am perplexed by Perryg's statement.
If it is possible to install a Wifi adapter directly in the guest OS, how does one do it? I have successfully connected to my Wifi adapter by creating a bridged interface to wlan0, but from the perspective of the guest OS, it is as if I have an Ethernet connection to the Wifi adapter on the host. Now I would like to use the Wifi interface in AP mode, specifying the configuration of the AP (e.g., the SSID) from the guest OS. Is this possible? What should I have assigned to the VirtualBox NICs?