Any experience of Virtualbox hanging the LAN?

[sdavmor]

NoOp wrote:
> 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.

I'll d/l them right now and see if that makes any difference.

> 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.

Thanks.  I'll be busy for the next few hours doing remote support for 
a customer so there's no rush.
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