Hi,
Vmware 8.x
Host is Win7, Gues is Win7.
I need an isolated Guest VM and it must use its own USB WIFI to connect to wireless networks.
I have some serious issues with any USB WIFI dongle I connect to my guest.
I have tried about 4 different USB WIFI dongles from different manufacturers connected to the guest os.
It seem to work well sometimes, but more often than not, it reports it cannot connect to wireless networks, and I need to try sometimes 10 times to connect until it can connect. Sometimes it would connect well, but would show no internet connection. Other time it would connect fine but may disconnect after a few minutes. Sometimes need to spend about 2 hours just tryting to connect to wireless networks from my guest VM just to get about 10 minutes of interuppted surfing. It really is unpredictable and I was unable to characterize the problematic pattern, it seems random to me.
Before you offer the obvious solutions, here's what I already did:
- Tried to run the Win7 VM Guest on 3 different laptops.
- Tried 5 different USB WIFI dongles from different manufacturers, they are all acting up strangely.
- Tried to connect to at least 10 different WIFI Hotspots! All produce the same unpredictable connection problems. So it's not a router specific problem.
- When I try the same USB WIFI dongles in the HOST system (of course disabling the internal wifi card first), they all work perfectly fine! So the problem is only when they are operating under the VM Guest, in which they are acting up making it impossible to work.
I know this thing is crazy!
Other USB stuff like external HD and USB sticks seems to work just fine on the VM guest. It's just that for some completely unexplained reason any WIFI USB dongle I connect to the guest is acting up, randomly causing connection problems, making it really impossible to work. Sometimes I need to spend about 2 hours of taking out the USB and reinserting, restarting the VM etc...etc.. only to get a good connection for 10 minutes before things are messed up again. And that's on 2 different computers from different manuacturers.
So far I spent dozens of hours trying to fix it, but just couldn't.
I'm desperate.
I promise honestly I'll pay $100 if someone can come up with a solution that would cure the problem.
Thanks
Rick