Hi all i have a strange problem I try to explain and I hope you can help me to fix it
If I use bridged network for my guests and I use my ethernet device as adapter all work fine, but if I use as adapter the wireless device the guests doesn't obtain the ip. If I'd like to use the wireless device I must use the NAT instead of Bridged.
I noticed this issue with all my virtualmachines. I'm using Virtualbox last version at the moment.
Thanks
Some wireless adapters don't work with Bridged mode - limitations of the hardware or manufacturer drivers. It's a roll of the dice whether a particular one will or not. You seem to have rolled snake-eyes, unfortunately.
If possible, you could find a wireless USB adapter that can handle bridging. I remember a thread on the forum somewhere that lists wireless adapters that have shown compatibility with Bridged. Not that it helps you, but my Lenovo Thinkpad E420's wireless adapter works fine with Bridged.
If you can't change your wireless adapter, one thought to avoid the trouble of switching settings all the time is put two network cards in the guests. One NAT on the wireless and the other Bridged on the Ethernet. One or the other network will connect and the guest ought to be able to network. Or, write a script to do the toggling using Vboxmanage (Look at the help file for that command).
Even if you leave the guest set to NAT on the wireless you can still access the local network, just by using the IP addresses of the device or computer you want to access. You just won't be able to get into the guest from other PCs. Whether this is good for you just depends on what you're using the guest for.
thanks for your reply
but when I installed virtualbox the bridged network in wirreless mode worked fine. From about 1 week that it doesn't work anymore and I don't understand why.
I don't think could be a problem of my wireless device because it worked in the past.
Only thing I could say then is, what changed a week ago? Maybe an update of Virtualbox, driver update, Windows update, some other new program that connects into the network like antivirus or a VPN?
Short of hardware failure, computers don't spontaneously quit working on their own. You posted under Windows Hosts so I assume you have a Windows Host. Unless you explicitly disabled Automatic Updates in Windows, many things could have changed.
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