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As a bigger bonus last night I figured out how to get 'bridge connections' to work in current Win 11 Insider the way it used to work in 1803 and earlier. Beautifully simple if I say so myself. No intention of telling Microsoft or Intel for their fraternity behavior of ignoring customers.  Thanks for hanging in there with me.   Cheers LF  

I tried Virtual Box and that's of no help; i.e. if I create a Win VM, the device mgr in the VM cannot see TB devices at all; if it can't see the devices, nothing else is going to happen at the VM level   In VMware Workstation, I can't see devices beyond the 'bridged' ethernet that enables internet access.  And I can't see TB devices either; so of no use.   Thanks for your help. I give up with VM's and Thunderbolt That's why I'm running Win 1803 instead of Win Insider 11 since Win handles TB as a stepchild, not a real ethernet device.  thunderbolt networking for the Win world is connecting two Win machines together with a TB cable and they connect via IP over TB.  Nothing else works. Interesting that Intel continues to advertise TB Networking with much more capability but Win doesn't provide it.

I'm stuck in the circle of not intuitively obvious For any kind of function on Ubuntu 21.04 I need an internet connection during and after the install.  I've done an easy install twice w/o the thunderbolt and can't get my 'normal' ethernet connection passing through to Ubuntu using VMware. Moving on to Virtual Box

I'm running VM(ware) in Win10 Ubuntu is running in the VM Thunderbolt devices are seen in Win10 Thunderbolt devices are not seen in VM/Ubuntu Any idea what I need to do to make the TB devices visible to Ubuntu?

chris Given your suggestion is for Linux, I assume you have not done this using a Windows host for the VM? (my muscle memory is Windows so I just started by reflex with a Windows host...) In any case, wouldn't the host need drivers for Thunderbolt for the VM adapters connected to the externa machine thunderbolt adapters?

certainly more simple, i'll give it a try thanks Chris   I had asked in AskUbuntu if the bridge in Ubuntu could bridge two thunderbolt adapters and the answer was no..... (yeah I know that no doesn't always mean know - pun)

thanks very much for your reply as another thought, if I take a single hardware box using Win and install two VM's, each VM connected to a different external thunderbolt adapter on that machine, can I use a vswitch to connect the two VM's and in effect create a bridge/route from from TB adapter to the other? (the goal)