About 2 weeks ago I installed Virtual Box. I prefer Virtual Box over Virtual PC, I’m not expert in either, but have used them both moderately from time to time, right now I’m running Windows 7 with Office 2010 on it. Virtual box has some nice features around docking in the guest OS and stuff like that.

Anyway, the issue is what happens to the wireless connection on the host OS – in this case XP – I’ve not tired in on Ubuntu yet, although I do have it installed there too (will have to try that!).  As soon as you open Virtual Box, the wire less dies – the PC is still connected to the network but the internet just does not work, no new pages are loaded. Theres definably something odd happening – Spotify keep chugging merrily along.

If you're not using spotify, you're a crazy fool!!!!!

The high tech solution so far has been to re boot – not ideal! I was getting cheesed off with this so instead I tried disabling and then enabling the wireless network connection in Settings>Network Connections – Bingo! A much better solution, if not ground braking in it’s genius.

Anyway I’d spent a bit of time looking around for a fix and not found one, so though I would share this idea.

Any one got a proper fix?