giving direct access to unrecognized wireless network card to a kvm/qemu guestOS

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Monday 16 July 2007, Tim Hull wrote:
> I don't think so (as VMs traditionally simulate their own hardware just
> like emulators with the exception of the processor), but NDISwrapper will
> likely see it and allow you to use the Windows driver for it on Linux -
> which would be a better solution anyway. Anyway, what type of card is it? 
> That would help make it easier to figure out.  There may already be a Linux
> driver for it, just not included with Feisty.  Or, you could use the
> afore-mentioned NDISwrapper...
>
> Tim
>
> On 7/16/07, Tomoki Taniguchi <tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > is it possible to give a kvm/qemu guestOS direct access
> > to a wireless network card that the linux host
> > does not recognize?

I believe Xen may allow you the access you desire, so long as you are on a 
modern processor with VMX extensions (such as CoreDuo, etc...).
The hardware is actually owned by one Domain (aka VM) which can be the Domain0 
(admin VM) or delegated to a child Domain.

Xen only allows virtualization for Windows on the VT hardware though.
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