[SOLVED] Wireless interface not visible On F17 guest, on a F14 host.
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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
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?
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.
Isn't wired interface somehow on the same hardware architecture layer as the wireless PCI?
(Just curious )
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.
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