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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:20:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F77746.9090603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375166739.14240.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de>

On 30/07/2013 08:45, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been running a Windows 7 (professional)guest  with Virtualbox on my
> GenToo system for some years.
> But recently I have a broken network either due to Virtualbox or due to
> some
> (automatic) Windows updates.
> 
> The situation is more than strange.
> 
> Sometime using a backed up Virtualbox image the network seems to work
> but only for
> a very short time (some minutes?)
> 
> Windows error analyzing tools don't see any network problems but it does
> not work.
> 
> Trying ping -n 100 <IP>  only a few packets come back but with a large
> delay (40-50 times
> larger delay compared to ping on the GenToo host)
> 
> I've tried the most recent Virtualbox 4.2.16 as well the oldest one (in
> the tree) which is 4.1.26
> 
> So probably it looks best to me to change to a different (free) VM.
> What do you recommend?
> 
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut


Your post is a bit vague, what outcome are you looking for?

Do you want to fix the VirtualBox setup and carry on as always?
Just looking for a change from VBox and this latest is a good excuse?

I have Win7 pro running on virtualbox 4.2.16, no issues here.
Host kernel is 3.9.11-gentoo-r1, and the NIC presented to Windows is a
nat'ted Intel PRO/1000

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-30  6:45 [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend? Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-30  8:11 ` Randolph Maaßen
2013-07-30  9:20   ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-30  9:49     ` Randolph Maaßen
2013-07-30 10:36   ` Tanstaafl
2013-07-30 12:42     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-30 12:54     ` Kerin Millar
2013-07-31  0:30     ` Walter Dnes
2013-07-31 11:40       ` Tanstaafl
2013-07-31 12:30         ` William Kenworthy
2013-08-01  1:40         ` Walter Dnes
2013-08-01  4:10           ` Walter Dnes
2013-07-30  8:20 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-07-30  9:28   ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-30  9:49     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-01 11:07 ` Mick

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