I have a (relatively) simple question, and the answer might be straightforward as well, not sure
I am using Virtual box on my Macbook (Lion). I have a stripped version of Win 7 running as a VM Virtual Box. Win 7 uses the network connection, which is provided on the host (Macbook) and that works perfectly.
What I want to do is the following: Have the Win 7 VM connect to wireless network A and running a VPN, while the Macbook itself is connected to wireless Network B, without a VPN. So, the Win 7 VM uses the same physical NIC (obviously), but uses a different virtual network connection, which itself is connected to a physically different wireless network.
You might wonder: why don't you try this yourself and why do you want this? At the moment, I have no access to two different wireless networks, so I can't test it. The reason doing this is that wireless network A is high speed wireless (7 mbps), but has a monthly data cap on it. Wireless network B is a slow wireless network (1.5 mbps) and has no data cap. The Win 7 VM is for work (hence the VPN) and uses the high speed wireless, while I use the other wireless network for all my other stuff, like private email, web browsing, streaming of audio, downloading, and so on. I wish I could use the high speed for this (and I can), but I will run soon into my data limit and have to pay a ridiculous fee of $15/GB (!) when I go over the data limit (which is set to 15 GB/month).
So, the question is: can I do this with/within Virtual Box running on my Macbook?
Thanks for any feedback and any other suggestions/thoughts around this question are welcome!
KR,
Wilbert