vmware-workstationwireless-networking
I am using VMWare Workstation 6.5 and have installed Windows XP SP2 on it.
My main operating system is Windows 7.
When I am hard-wired, I can use the Internet inside VMware, but when I am wireless, I cannot use the Internet inside VMware.
I did some research and found that the network adapter should be on NAT instead of bridge. I tried that, but it did not work either.
You will need to create a second bridged virtual network adapter pointing to the second card and add it to the Virtual Machine. However you may need to give this a static IP if it is on Crossover since there will not be a DHCP server available from your current configuration.
Problem found, thanks to @John T's comments.
I also have VirtualBox installed, and the auto-bridging feature of VMware Workstation won't pick one of my built-in adapters because they're now labeled "VirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver Miniport" at the end instead of just the built-in names.
If I manually select one of the physical adapters to use for bridging, it works just fine. However, apparently because VirtualBox is doing some form of processing on the connection, it is more sluggish running bridged than NAT-ed.
I am going to remove VirtaulBox from this machine as soon as I do not need one specific VM I have running in it to accelerate VMware's network performance.
Best Answer
I believe you may need to go in to the virtual network editor and choose which adapter is linked with which virtual network under Host Virtual Network Mappings. It could be that your VM that is bridged is still trying to connect out through the unplugged wired network connection. Have a look in there and you should be able to select VMNet0 to use the wireless connection instead of the wired.
EDIT: Right have loaded up VM Workstation at work and it is where I thought it was. Go Start -> VMWare and load Virtual Network Editor. This will bring up the config that I was talking about and the tab along the top "Host Virtual Network Mapping" may be of interest to you.