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Hi,
I'm getting an external wifi card for my mbp, and need to know if its possible to share the internet connection that was established inside the guest os using the external wifi card to the host OS. The problem is that the Realtek 8187L chipset isn't supported, but one of the best cards on the market - Alpha AWUS036H has ...
I currently don't have any working external card to test it with so I'll be extremely grateful for an answer. Also, as for the OS I'm assuming it doesn't matter, but if it does, I'd be using either Win7,8 or BackTrack 5.
Thank you very much,
Switha

P.S. I did a short search through the forums and didn't find anything, its possible something is there, but I didn't find it... So if this was already answered please do link me.

Yes it is possible, but requires some networking knowledge and will not be dummy proof...

I can see two ways of doing this :
1. Create another NIC in the VM and bridge it to your ethernet port. Give a static IP to the guest and use that IP as a gateway for the host
2. Create a host-only NIC in the host, select host-only mode for the guest using that internface, give a static IP to the guest on that NIC, and add a default route to that static IP on the host (do NOT set a gateway on the host-only NIC on the host)

I have my doubts whether this will work reliably. Assuming that "external" means a USB dongle, these don't always cope well with the latencies of a VM. However if you can get the USB side to work reliably then of course the NIC can be shared over a network just like a physical PC could do it.