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mateusm

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Registered: 2023-08-11

Posts: 1

Trouble configuring network with VirtualBox on macOS

Hello, everyone. I have recently decided to eventually migrate to Arch Linux (I'm currently on macOS Ventura 13.4.1), and have started to configure my system by running a virtual machine with VirtualBox. I downloaded the ISO file, spun the virtual machine (with EFI) and set out to follow the Installation Guide, but I haven't been able to get past section 1.7 (Connect to the Internet). More specifically, I have not been able to connect to my Wi-Fi using iwctl, due to device list outputting an empty table.

The output of ip link is as follows:

 1: lo <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 08:00:27:80:8c:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Also, rfkill outputs nothing. And, as I said, when I run device list on iwctl, it outputs an empty table.

I'm as newbie as they come, so please bear with me! Any kind of help is very much appreciated.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: Trouble configuring network with VirtualBox on macOS

You're in a VM, you don't have wifi, you have a virtualized adapter provided by the virtual machine.