Re: [Qemu-devel] WiFi inside VMs?

[Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Васил Рангелов <boen.robot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to ask if it would be possible to add support for at least one
> model of WiFi device on guest machines?

USB and/or PCI passthorugh might help here, or am I getting something wrong?

>
>
> I realize the feature request has been discussed previously (here:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-03/msg00575.html ), but
> my reason for wanting it is slightly different than the reason back then...
>
> There's this program for simulating networks you've definitely heard of (I
> mean... It's been mentioned on this list...) - GNS3. It currently can't
> emulate Wireless networks, exactly because Qemu (nor any other emulator for
> that matter) supports WiFi devices inside VMs.
>
> The old discussion above points out how it would be problematic to bridge a
> real WiFi adapter to the virtual one, but as far as GNS3 is concerned,
> that's not really a problem, since the backend in its case needs to be a UDP
> tunnel. As long as the WiFi frames can be encapsulated into a UDP tunnel,
> GNS3 could theoretically provide the connection between two WiFi devices
> inside a simulated topology.
>
>
> Even if such a feature's usefulness is only limited to GNS3, that's still
> IMHO a great deal of usefulness, and therefore it should be a worthy goal to
> pursue.
>
> So... Pleeeease? Pretty please? :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Vasil Rangelov
>
>

regards,
Nikolay Nikolaev
Virtual Open Systems