How to make a virtual Access Point from Laptop with Mikrotik RouterOS ???

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How to make a virtual Access Point (vAP) from Laptop with Mikrotik ??

  • I did download and build a Mikrotik RouterOS on VMware Workstation 12 by a vmdk file on homepage Mikrotik.
  • My Laptop have wireless Driver :
  • Dell Wireless 1705 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz).
  • Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller .
    My question:
  • I want to add wireless interface for Mikrotik but i can’t. Is that why i can’t creat vAP on RouterOS ???
  • how to add wireless interface for Mikrotik RouterOS from VMware Workstation ??

Thanks so much.

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I am afraid that wlan is not supported in virtualized environment by ros. Using whatever Ap mikrotik device is much more economical in my opinion.

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Wireless adapters are not supported in virtualized environments period. RouterOS or no RouterOS.

Or to put this another way… You should take up this as a feature request to VMware.

(Other hypervisors like VirtualBox and Qemu don’t support this either… But if one hypervisor supports it, I’m sure the rest will follow soon…)

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VMware ESXi supports PCI passthrough allowing a VM to directly access a physical PCI device connected to the hypervisor.

I haven’t tried using any wireless device on ESXi before, so I don’t if it actually works with ROS.
Here’s the relevant KB article by VMware https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1010789