jim wrote:
> "goarilla <"kevin<punt>paulus|"@|skynet" <"punt> wrote in message
> news:484282d7$0$2990$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
>> dennis@home wrote:
>>>
>>> "goarilla <"kevin<punt>paulus|"@|skynet" <"punt> wrote in message
>>> news:48427bc9$0$2954$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
>>>
>>>
>>>> i dare you to install windows in a VM running on windows
>>>> with a BartPE disk !
>>> Isn't that just a case of..
>>> booting the disk in the VM..
>>> formatting the C: drive..
>>> make it bootable..
>>> copy the contents of the i386 directory to the disk..
>>> reboot the VM from the C drive..
>>> running setup from the i386 directory you copied.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> well ... try it
>> then boot your windows and plugin a USB to see if it works !
>
> I don't know about all that crap, but I do know that even clean installs of
> Linux (I tried Ubuntu 8.04 and Xubuntu 8.04 in the HOURS that I have been
> fighting with this) will not see the USB wireless adapter from within the
> VM.

I don't know why you want to access the wireless adapter from the
GuestOS, doing so will just make the HostOS to be without network
connection. The simples way is to let the HostOS make the network
connection and through the virtual network that the VM should be
connected to, you will get access to the network.

I run Fedora Core 8 at work on my laptop, it don't know how it's really
connected to the net, wired or wireless, as that is handled by the
crashing microsoftXP.


> If you have any suggestions that may help me in my goal to run BackTracker 3
> in a VM and have it still see the wireless USB device, I'm all ears.

You are looking for a solution that will just give you more headache,
it's a virtual machine, it don't have to have any direct access to the
hardware to work, use the possibilities instead of painting yourself
into a corner.


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//Aho