On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Alexey Eremenko <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > Let's start with basic home use case: > > NAT network, pcNET-III NIC for 32-bit guests, Intel PRO 1000 MT Desktop NIC > for 64-bit guests. (default for VBox) > > Workload: > browsing to web sites (HTTP), like google.com or intel.com or ping them > (ICMP) > > Which failures you had in this basic use case? (as you see in my document, I > had no issues at all for this simple use case) > > My tip: once you have a problem write it down, and try to revert to default > NIC for this type of guest and try to simplify workload. (and revert to NAT) > > -- I have a windows 7 64-bit host, vbox was 3.0.12 created a vm named centos basic configuration, 1 nic, NAT, intel pro 1000 adapter. I use the net install of centos 5.4 and the net install cd could not get a dhcp address with this configuration, I shut off the vm played with adapter settings and finally found that the pcnet III card seemed to work well. and I was able to get a dhcp address and do the net install. created a second vm called ubuntu for the latest ubuntu, installed that from the downloaded iso and it seemed to have the same problem with networking, and the same solution solved it. when I created my third vm for FreeBSD even the pcnet III adapter could not get a dhcp address, and I had to back down to a pcnet II for that to work. I have to say, that when networking works, it seems to work well. Then I upgraded vbox to 3.1.0 and none of the above settings still worked. tried other network adapters and could not find one that worked. My biggest problem here was time, I was "under the gun" to get it working again and I didnt have a lot of time to play around. This is my dev box, and I needed to get it back to running so I could work on something else. Anyway, I ran out of time before I found a suitable configuration, so I uninstalled 3.1.0 and reinstalled 3.0.12 and went back to something I knew worked. I havent had the time to retest networking on the 3.1.0 stuff. and quite frankly I'm not looking forward to it. Generally speaking when networking works for me, I can ping, www, ssh, etc no trouble. But when networking does not work, none of it works. Its a binary situation for me, either it works, or it doesnt, and there doesnt seem to be a middle ground. My preference would be to emulate a gigabit adapter, as there actually is one one the host box and when I am connected to a real gigabit net, it would be nice to have access to that inside the guests as well. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
