Mac/Parallels question

I don't think it can since the Mac only has one wireless card and cannot use wireless and Ethernet at the same time...as far as I know. Also, Parallels is built to share whatever Mac connection is connected. You can run in bridged mode, where Windows has its own IP address, but I think that is about it. I may be wrong, though, since I haven't looked into it too much.

 

I just has a quick tinker and I don't think it can be done. I wondered if you may be able to add a USB wireless adaptor and make it so that only the VM sees it but it doesn't seem possible. Maybe ask Parallels support?

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Well, this could work. Parallels asks what to do with a USB stick. You then tell it to connect to windows and not mac. In the preferences you set parallels not to use the internet from the mac. And then you could try to set up the USB dongle.

The only flaws are that I'm not sure whether parallels will actually ask what to do with it, since it's not a USB stick. Second is whether parallels will be able to send such information to and from the USB dongle. But you could always try. Not sure how expensive such a dongle is...

 

Hi dude,

If you go to Virtual Machine > Configure, you can see all of the networks that Parallels can use. If you have an Ethernet cable plugged in, Parallels can use that, whilst the Mac side uses Wi-fi. The default setting for Parallels is to share the Mac's connection, rather than connecting to a network natively.

(I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, but I hope it helps)

You can see a screenshot of what I mean below.