<html><head></head><body>Others said it first but I'll chime in too.<br>The VM doesn't need to control the physical nic, wireless or wired. It typically uses a vnic which either directly bridges to the physical nic or is nat'ed behind the bridge. Use the nat with a wireless nic to avoid the need to embed wireless credentials in your vm.<br><br>I'm pretty sure one of my nat'ed vms can work even when I transition from wireless to wired on my laptop. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 31, 2018 9:15:34 AM EST, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I like an really want to use KVM on my laptop (big-beefy Lenovo with 32 GB)<br>but I struggle to get KVM to work with the wireless NIC. After a few hours,<br>I gave up and installed VirtualBox (sigh).<br><br>Yes... I know... KVM is really meant for wired "servers". Maybe I'm missing<br>something obvious.<br><br>/Raj<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Ale <ale-bounces@ale.org> On Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio via Ale<br>Sent: Monday, December 31, 2018 6:25 AM<br>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale@ale.org><br>Subject: [ale] VirtualBox v6 vs KVM Performance<br><br>The short answer is to use KVM if you care at all about performance.<br><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=virtualbox-60-kvm">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=virtualbox-60-kvm</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related and reflect authenticity.</body></html>