From either Windows or Linux?
If you wind the ball tight, as in it is a rock hard, then yes it will damage the yarnIf wound in a loose ball, then no, it will do no more damage than when it was in the skeinIt will be fine.
Yes it should be possibleI have two NIC's one for internal and one for external, if you want a Virtual Machine to have the IP of one of the WIFI's Bridge the adaptorIf you just want it to utilize the WIFI NIC then NAT it via the VM SoftwareGood luck I spent 10 hours learning how to do this ;)
