On 7/7/20 12:43, Laine Stump wrote: > On 7/7/20 11:26 AM, ryotaro kobayashi wrote: >> Hello, everyone. >> >> I'm from japan and using machine translation, so I apologize if it's >> hard to read. >> >> I am currently trying to build a virtual environment using Ubuntu and >> kvm. >> >> However, I found out from the following page that the virtual machine >> cannot use the bridge network because I am using a wireless network. >> >> https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking >> >> I am having trouble with this because my PC is using a wireless LAN. >> >> On that page it says "wireless interfaces cannot be attached to a >> Linux host bridge", I Can you tell me why this is so? >> >> Is it a limitation of the NIC driver for the wireless LAN? > > Not really. > >> Or is it a limitation of libvirt? > > Definitely not. Completely out of libvirt's control. Is anyone aware/at liberty to say how VirtualBox circumvents this limitation? I presume it's via some sort of software switch trickery, but they seem to be able to do a bridged(-like) mode via a Wi-Fi interface. -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info
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