why it has to be via virtual machines the TL-WA701ND works in any OS Win XP, Vista, W7, regurarly the use of VMs is when you have a old inkjet printer and W7 does not have the drivers, then you install XP in the VM and from Win XP you print, if you elaborate the reason of the need of a VM, you will get more help.
When you open a OS via VM example, you have 2 adapters in your Lap one wireless and one wire, you only see one on the VM OS, both work, but you only control one at the time.

@danymarc Your answer is not really helpful.

 

I've just set up an Archer AC5400 and my VMs cannot see the gateway address which is strange, my virgin router did not have this problem.

 

Knowing why the VMs are required helps in no way when answering a hardware issue.