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Hi guys

Basically the title says it all. I have 2 Internet connections, 1st is ADSL 1.5/.5mbps (on a cabled LAN), 2nd is a mobile broadband 3/1mbps (on a wireless router). I want to create a VM to host my file transfers abroad using my mobile broadband, the mobile broadband has faster transfer rates ironically) so I left the ADSL with better pings for family daily use and gaming. That goes without saying that our internet connections here are beyond horrible so I am forced to split connections since using just one connection would interrupt/slow down the gaming of other members (we do that a lot). I transfer roughly 1GB to 12GB in a span of 3 days, I do 3d renderings and animations, raw image sequences do take up a lot of space.

My hardware is:

Mobo: ASUS Maximus Gene V
Proc: i7 2600k
Ram: 16GB
GPU: AMD 6950
HDD: Host on 120GB SSD, Guest on 120 GB virtual disk on a 500GB Western digital black
OS: Win7 ulti x64
(any other info i need to add?)

I have to note also that my wireless adapter is a USB wireless G dongle by tplink (2 year old model)

I only had the hypothesis that it would work by making the host use the ADSL and then make the guest use the wireless, however, when I went about testing it the guest only manages to use the active connection (whichever I choose for the host, either the cabled or wireless). If I turn it both network adapters on the guest seems 'confused' and has no internet connection. Is what I'm thinking impossible?

the drivers for the network connections are updated.

Also, USB 2.0/3.0 hard disks, does it work with virtualbox? I'd want it to so that i can use those hard disks to be an common file holder for the host and guest machines.

Thanks in advance.

You can do that without much trouble from Windows. From the properties of each network connection you can control whether either the host or the guest can use it. (By default they both can).

There is a screenshot on my skydrive. https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=B71C970B ... B3C7%21390

ooh i haven't managed to check those out. you are awesome! Thanks a big bunch.


Edit: OK I thought that was the clincher but somehow even if I follow your example, the guest still takes the cabled connection, I'll try putting up a pic of how it looks like in a while. Thanks.

Perhaps you did them the wrong way around!