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 11:49:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F78C46.4050200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375176488.14240.2@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
On 30/07/2013 11:28, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 10:20:22 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Keeping VirtualBox *** if *** I could fix it, is an option but I cannot
> fix it. I've tried several NICs with no luck.
> This was with 3.9.x as well as with 3.10.x
> I'm at the end of my wits!
>
>> Just looking for a change from VBox and this latest is a good excuse?
>
> Probably. I had too many problems with VBox in the past, it's a
> complicated beast
> and the documentation didn't help.
>
>>
>> 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
>
> So, probably, you are lucky
>
> If you could share your luck!
I wish I could :-)
I have nothing special, I just emerged virtualbox, the additions and
modules and made the VMs I need.
They work like they should just like it says on the box
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-30 10:46 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
2013-07-30 9:28 ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-30 9:49 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-08-01 11:07 ` Mick
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