Any experience of Virtualbox hanging the LAN?

[NoOp]

On 07/02/2009 05:45 PM, sdavmor wrote:
> I have upgraded to vbox 3.0.0 on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.  I am running 
> Windows XP svc pk 3 in the virtual.  My vbox networking has been NAT 
> on "adapter 1" using the PCnet-FAST III.  

You might want to try the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM) instead.
There were some issues in the past with the PCnet-FAST III.

There used to be no issue
> with this (other than speed).  But now as soon as the virtual WinXP 
> gets to the login point I lose my networking.  In addition within 
> seconds I'll hear from my family "what happened to the internet" as 
> they appear to lose there's as well.
> 
> My question is has anyone else experienced this?  If so what did you 
> do about it?  Right now I am working from the premise that something 
> is munging the hand-off between the virtual NIC and the real NIC on my 
> motherboard.  And that it in turn is overloading the router so it 
> can't process either inbound or outbound traffic properly.

I'd recommend checking on the virtualbox list:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community

Nevermind... I see that you've already done that on the VB list.

I'll install VB 3.0 later this evening on the other 9.04 machine & see
if I can reproduce.