Hi, I am using Fedora 34 and wanted to use a VM on it. It is QEMU KVM. My VM is also Fedora 34. It all worked well but instead of the WiFi settings on the top right, it only shows wired connections which is unusual. As I searched for WiFi settings, it said I need a WiFi adapter in order to use WiF…

Thank you, but I couldn’t even enable WiFi on the VM because it says I need a WiFi adapter. :frowning:

In normal default configuration, the wifi adaptor is controlled by the host - the guests got virtual network adaptors (LAN) in NAT mode. The guests will not aware there is wifi adaptor in your host. My hosts have a LAN port and a wifi adaptor. I can use PCI passthrough to assigned my wifi adapto…

Just to add on to what the others are saying. On your host machine, the one running qemu, you make a connection to your wireless network. Since the host machine is using wifi network adapter, the guest machine will be given a virtual lan adapter which is using the wifi adapter on the host. That i…

Makes sense, thanks. Can you tell me how I can manage that with the virtual LAN adapter in the VM?

Guest NIC settings in virt-manager: Network source: Bridge device… Device name: virbr0 Device model: virtio

Oh thank you, but I actually want to use NAT as it seems to be more fitting to my needs regarding privacy and security.

That’s it, virbr0 is the default virtual network/switch operating in NAT mode.

But how am I using NAT when i switch from NAT to Bridge? I don’t really understand that. :confused:

Cannot use WiFi on my QEMU VM?

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shacc189 (Shacer Colombus) September 6, 2021, 7:36am 8

Yes. I have found out the reason I think but this leads to another problem. Can you quickly check out my newest question?

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/installing-networkmanager-is-failing/71398

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