Wireless interface not visible On F17 guest, on a F14 host.
 

Hi all.

I have installed a F17 (Beta) in VirtualBox, on a F14 host.

No matter what VirtualBox settings I set in the "Network" section, I am not able to see the wireless interface on F17 (only wired interface).

Is this an expected bahaviour?


Thanks and Regards,
Ajay

Hi,

yes, this is as the expected. You should only see a virtual wired interface.

Evo2.

---------- Post added 2012-06-14 at 07:11 ----------

Hi,

yes, this is as the expected. You should only see a virtual wired interface.

Evo2.

I have installed a F17 (Beta)
the beta version is DEAD and will never be supported

you DO need to install the official fedora 17 release

also running fedora 14 is also not a good idea it has NOT had a security fix or update in 6 months and never will
fedora 15 also will become DEAD in a week or 2

Thanks evo2.
I feel better :)


Just one more thing (at the risk of being-lazy-and-not-trying-out-myself) :

Is the same expected for the reverse case? That is, if I install a F14 (as a guest) on a F17 (as the host), will I still not see any wireless interface on the (guest) F14?



Thanks again.

Thanks and Regards,
Ajay

VM's do NOT see any wireless

Just for clarification: As the name, virtual machine (VM), states, they emulate a complete PC, using virtual hardware. This includes really the complete PC, all parts, except the CPU. There is the possibility to pass through USB devices to a virtual machine, so that the guest OS can access those devices in a native way. The same function for PCI(e) is currently only experimental.
So in short: Regardless which OS you install into the VM, it will always see a virtual wired network interface.

Thanks JohnVV and TobiSGD.

TobiSGD, one query :: :)

Isn't wired interface somehow on the same hardware architecture layer as the wireless PCI?
(Just curious :D )


Thanks and Regards,
Ajay

Sorry, I don't understand the question. Please elaborate what you want to know exactly.

Hi,
I think that maybe you are still missing the point. The operating system in the virtual machine does not see the real/host "physical" wired interface.
What it sees is an emulation of a wired device provided by the virtual machine.

If you run lspci in your guest and host OSs you should see *very* different things that will be corresponding to eth0 on the two OSs.

Evo2.