Virtual machines and hardware

[Ozor Mox]

A quick scenario for the cafe...

Say I had Ubuntu on my computer and wireless was not activated because I hadn't installed the firmware or ndiswrapper or whatever, i.e. it doesn't work out of the box. Then say I installed Windows in a virtual machine and installed the correct wireless drivers for that. Would wireless in Windows work, or does it rely on Ubuntu having wireless enabled? What if Ubuntu wireless worked but dropped packets, would Windows also drop packets? What about other hardware?

Popcorn for the answer! :popcorn:

[Ozor Mox]

No one knows the answer to this?

It's a little bit stale now, but I still have popcorn! :)

[perlluver]

If the wireless is not connected in Ubuntu, I do not believe you will get it connected through Windows. Virtualbox works on an already connected network.

[Delever]

Virtual machine (for example, in VMWare, VBox) relies on host to have networking.

[Ozor Mox]

Thanks muchly. Here's your popcorn, split it 50/50 :popcorn: