G+_William Burlingame Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 I have VMware running in Win 10 on a desktop with Ethernet. I also have a USB WiFi adapter. I would like to have the Win 10 host continue to use the Ethernet connection, but have one of my VMs use my WiFi guest account so that resources on my LAN are not available to the VM. I don't understand how to set it up to do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Gauld Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Two ways - use the ability to connect USB devices to a VM to connect the WiFi adapter to the guest (easiest) or connect the host machine to the guest network and bridge that network connection to the guest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William L. DeRieux IV Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 William Burlingame You probably have some network connections created by VMWare named vmnet -- these are for host-only connections and can be bridged with other network connections (such as the wireless card). If your wireless connection is properly provisioned to automatically connect at boot/login, then, you can then bridge it with one of the vmnet connections and this would eleminate the need to manually connect the usb dongle to the vm -- which is very annoying. Robert Gauld Without the proper cpu infrastructure you cannot reserver hardware for exclusive use by vmware (not even in virtualbox) -- this means that you would have to manually connect a usb device every time the vm is started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Burlingame Posted October 8, 2016 Author Share Posted October 8, 2016 +Robert Gauld, it looks like it's working. I added a Network Adapter and set it up the adapter as Bridged. I configured it with everything unchecked, except the WiFi. It's difficult for me to determine with Debian to see what I was using, so I unplugged the Ethernet and nothing changed. Then I plugged the Ethernet back in an unplugged the WiFi and got a popup in Debian that it changed the connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Gauld Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 William Burlingame using ifconfig from the debian guest's command line should let you know it's IP address. If it's in the range of the guest network then it's a good indication that that's the one it's on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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