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Virtual PC VM to use USB wireless "card" to connect to the Internet?

Virtual PC VM to use USB wireless "card" to connect to the Internet?

My Windows Vista installation is using a USB key to connect to my wireless router.

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Guest [Entry]

"From Virtual PC Guy's WebLog, his solution:

Created a new internal virtual network, and called it “Bridged virtual network”.
Configured my virtual machine to use this virtual network.
In the parent partition I then opened the Network from the Start menu and selected Network and Sharing Center followed by Change adapter settings.
Next I selected both my wireless network adapter and the virtual network adapter for my “Bridged virtual network”."
Guest [Entry]

The virtual machine generally uses its own virtual network cards to access the network. It might be worth looking at the network settings on the VM from the VM software rather than the OS inside. For instance, in VirtualBox you look at the device options from the VirtualBox software. Usually you have the choice of which of the host computers network cards you want to use for the virtual machine's virtual network cards. It's probably still set to the LAN card.