[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

[Carl Brewer]

On 13/02/2014 12:27 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:

> Hi Carl.
>
> I have a few OI+VBox boxes in production right now and I haven't
> experienced any networking failure.  The only part isn't supported is
> the crossbow network stack, you need to use the streams version. They
> have absolutely been rock solid.

I haven't done anything non-standard with this box, AFAIK. How would I 
know if it was using crossbow?


>
> They are all running the 4.2.x version of the software though.
>
> You should file a bug at: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker

Done

>
> Another note:  I had major performance gains using the virtio network
> type, instead use the Intel version.  I was only getting 27MBps on the
> virtio, but the PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM) got 70MBps using nttcp on
> a Windows guest.   I haven't done any performance testing on the Linux
> or FreeBSD guests yet.

Not sure if that would play nicely with NetBSD 5.x?

They're webservers, the bottleneck is my DSL link, not the speed of the 
interfaces.

Thank you

Carl