From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F121381F3 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:46:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76D06E0B5E; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f177.google.com (mail-we0-f177.google.com [74.125.82.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EA1DE0B54 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f177.google.com with SMTP id m46so4888139wev.36 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:52:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zbgYrEz7SdxM5mn+44jULqVld9N3BGqPx0nzBrgOGt8=; b=eQTFetTcCiFDPh2Sa4v8j0Xh6SgHzu4F8bjXb92tbXK/Ka+VoWQDpV5i0k0QOgG0Jc UfTIcNpEmM7w5rilGWogVPsY2H7Zx4ZTdlqeIO08y88Gqz9YRWE+Lyysr6OxJ8f25TjK q7sv1u8sAAeq5OC6dpspHwhgBFkaiJkRsXMh8YJLLFryD7NHcir2BXY4S7nrIjOpSGJ4 o7oYBCcZ1mvXDjQFqLhxVre/uixz2HQ1w7Ues8iVOa7qdDeNEOhPhYSC3x5M40UY83M8 oiXOItMp+by4jQQILmj9jmnrM30BkV6z8/ntHsH7BmCHRpXqhTKoU4pDZNngLvBh1lsD a8mw== X-Received: by 10.180.10.202 with SMTP id k10mr426814wib.17.1375177956350; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-70.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.70]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o10sm27320075wiz.5.2013.07.30.02.52.34 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51F78C46.4050200@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:49:58 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130709 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend? References: <1375176488.14240.2@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <1375176488.14240.2@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 82211194-0746-4760-8151-fc8eff79974c X-Archives-Hash: 22e8fe82a127e6ebbcc71234d262dc41 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 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