The virtual Wifi adapter would be an excellent candidate for a bridge...
A usage scenario would be running ICS and bridging an ethernet adapter and the Virtual Wifi Adapter when running hostednetwork... Personally I'd be willing to run the hostednetwork WITHOUT the virtualization functionality and just tie up the physical wireless adapter, but that doesn't seem to be possible either...
But even without ICS, it'd be nice if the computer running the hostednetwork could have the members of the wireless private network, and wired network able to interact...
EDIT: Alright, let me be a little more vociferous: "Layer 2 bridging is prohibited between the AP adapter and any other adapters in the system." I realize that enabling such a thing would actually require additional programming, as a modified version of the existing NAT infrastructure of ICS is used to sort out the virtual wireless network, but it doesn't seem it would be of higher difficulty than all the effort that already went into the virtualization. And it is the most-expected behavior of an "access point" (which is how the biggest-headlining uses of this technology, a la Connectify, are being touted). If the restriction is simply to be polite to networking hardware vendors, consider that perhaps they don't deserve it. Joe user still turns off his computers a lot. He'll probably want a consumer router still. But if Bob the Power User isn't enamoured of the available (cheap) consumer electronics married to (even cheaper) embedded software... competition is healthy. Their hardware (in some form) is still a requisite of networking.
Or was that part of the deal for convincing them to write Win 7 drivers that support this functionality in the first place? ...now things get muddy...
