Hello, On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Васил Рангелов <boen.ro...@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
