Parallels Desktop enables internet connection on your VM by sharing your current Mac's connection via ethernet-like network.
I want to access on my Windows VM wifi connection, not get it from Mac but to actually connect on it's own - how to do that if there's no wireless adapter device nor wireless icon in taskbar?
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Congratulations on purchasing Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac. You no longer have to choose between the Mac or the PC―Parallels Desktop lets you use Windows side-by-side with Mac OS X on your. I would like to have a real Wi-Fi connection in my virtual machine. Wi-Fi adapter is working fine on Mac Os side Windows virtual machine recognize all network connections as wired connections Virtual machine that underlies Parallels Desktop does not have a wireless adapter. Parallels Desktop does.
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In Parallels you have a few choices of how to connect to a Network or Internet, Shared Networking, Bridged Ethernet Networking and Host-Only Networking. In all of these the Guest OS/VM only sees a Wired Ethernet Adapter as that is what the software provides. It does not provide a Wi-Fi Network Adapter even though the Guest OS/VM can connect to a Network or Internet using Shared Networking or Bridged Ethernet Networking (which can be bridged to the Host's Wi-Fi or Ethernet adapters) and does not show a Wi-Fi icon in e.g. the Windows Taskbar System Notification Area. So even following the directions in Using WiFi in a Virtual Machine which uses Bridged Ethernet Networking the connection in the Guest OS/VM will still appear as a Wired Ethernet Connection.
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If you want to have direct Wi-Fi connectivity in the VM, in other words have a Wi-Fi icon in e.g. the Windows Taskbar System Notification Area as if the virtual machine was a physical machine that had a built-in Wi-Fi Network Adapter, then you will need to supply your own USB Wi-Fi Adapter and connect it directly to the VM. In this scenario there is no other way!
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