Is it possible to forward the built-in Wi-Fi adapter to a virtual machine?

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good_sefore2020-12-22 15:10:11

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good_sefore, 2020-12-22 15:10:11

I have a Windows machine and a Linux virtual machine on it. Is it possible to forward the built-in Wi-Fi adapter to this virtual machine? In the future, so that you can put this built-in adapter into monitoring mode from this virtual machine. If possible, how is forwarding done?

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ky0, 2020-12-22
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Can. And if the adapter supports the monitoring mode, then it will be possible to activate it in Linux.
How forwarding is done depends on the virtualization system, rtfm.

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Alexey Cheremisin, 2020-12-22
@leahch

In general, yes. If it supports the processor and motherboard IOMMU + VT-d, then you can forward it by first disabling the drivers in the host system.
If the device supports SR-IOV, and the motherboard supports the previous two, then it’s even easier, you can make several virtual hardware (!) From one piece of hardware and forward a virtual device to the virtual machine.
But usually with laptops this does not always work.