The company I work for is virtually exclusively using PC laptops. I've been able to convince my Mac-sympathetic boss to buy me a MacBook Pro for use at work and home provided the VMWare emulation allows me to do absolutely everything the PC laptop I'd otherwise have would do. I believe I'm there aside from the fact that I cannot operate wirelessly. I'm currently using my own MacBook Pro to shake this all down. We have an internal wireless network that 'just works' for the PC laptops as provided by our IS department. Regular PC laptops can't connect to this, and the same is certainly true for my MacBook Pro. Everything is set up such that the PC laptops are checked to see if they are properly sanctioned corporate laptops, and when that test is passed all the remaining security happens and a successful connection is made. I really don't know much about the setup workings at all.
The ethernet side of things certainly hasn't been a problem - I can connect to everything I want. I was able to rescue an old junker laptop and have our IS department wipe it and set it all up for me. My intention is to assimilate the PC laptop into my Mac and then just keep the old PC laptop locked in my drawer. Before assimilation, I made sure it could connect wirelessly in the hope that it's configuration would transfer to the virtual machine - but it didn't :-(.
I need to have this working such that if the ethernet dies the wireless can take over. Is this possible?