



Make sure it got connected to your virtual machine:ĭownload drivers for your Wireless USB adapter model and proceed with installing drivers inside your virtual machine. Plug your Wireless USB adapter into your Mac and then connect it to Windows virtual machine: ResolutionĪs a workaround one can use a various Wireless USB network adapters.įor the purposes of this article we are using simple USB Wi-Fi adapter from one of the well known brands. Due to technical limitations no virtualization software allows for direct access to hardware devices like Wi-Fi adapter. Instead, it connects directly to the Wireless device the Host uses.Įvery PCI or PCI-Express device attached to the virtual machine is getting virtualized by the Parallels Desktop. Parallels Desktop does not natively offer Wireless support (like a virtualized Wireless device). Virtual machine that underlies Parallels Desktop does not have a wireless adapter. Windows virtual machine recognize all network connections as wired connections.Wi-Fi adapter is working fine on Mac Os side.I would like to have a real Wi-Fi connection in my virtual machine.
