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i want to exclusively pass-through network adapter to Open-WRT Virtual-machine i don't want virtual hardware is it possible using windows 10 as a host ?

i tried with virtual-box old version 4.3 pci attach but i gets eveytime an error

thanks in advances

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  • Why on earth would you want that? If you set the virtual network adapter as bridged, it will become part of your network, which is basically what you are after. No NAT, no opening ports, your virtual machine will register and expose itself in your network as if it was a physical device.
    – LPChip
    Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 15:59
  • because i want to have native hardware performance which is giving better performance than virtual driver
    – Hosni
    Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 17:18
  • I doubt there is much performance loss. Oracle VirtualBox is really good at this stuff.
    – LPChip
    Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 18:31
  • Performance with the virtual network adapter is very good on my machine.
    – anon
    Commented Mar 29, 2020 at 12:22
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    I just checked now on a Kali VM using the virtual adapter and testing with Speedtest.net and got essentially the same broadband speed as the host machine.
    – anon
    Commented Mar 29, 2020 at 12:26

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To use a hardware adapter for networking without passing through from the host machine, you need a USB Network Adapter (Wired or Wireless) and make the USB device discoverable in the virtual machine.

While this works for some setups, it does not work for all. Then, in this case you would need to stick with the standard Host / Guest hardware setup.

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  • i tried ethernet usb adapter but it won't work with OpenWRT , can i use the computer adapter ?
    – Hosni
    Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 15:58
  • The host adapter works via the Guest hardware setup. You would need to use that. I edited my answer to reflect that.
    – anon
    Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 16:00

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