For 3 hours the other night I beat my head against a wall trying to get VirtualPC to work with my wireless card. I had some time in the hotel on a trip to Boston and I've been dying to try out a Windows Communication Foundation sample I saw demo'd at the PDC. Indster is an application written by Omri Gazitt that demonstrates the P2P capabilities of Indigo and has some cool features (uses Amazon's webservices). I fired up my VPC image and after about an hour had fixed all the breaking changes the RTM bits introduced into Omri's code. I also had to regenerate the Amazon service proxy but I couldn't get online using my host's wireless nic. After some time googling I finally found the answer. Basically the idea is
1-install Microsoft's Loopback Adapter (Add New Hardware wizard)
2-turn on Internet Sharing for your wireless card and point to the Loopback adapter
3-use the Loopback Adapter as your network card in the VPC
I wasted too much time trying to get this to work but finally got it going and got back to checking out Indster. I'll post a followup with the changes I had to make to get Indster working with VS2005 RTM.