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

[Michael Hase]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote:

> On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
>
>> and "dladm show-vnic"?
>
> carl at hostie:~$ dladm show-vnic
> carl at hostie:~$
>

This is the problem, it should read like

root at hp:~# dladm show-vnic
LINK         OVER         SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE         VID
vnicsuse1    e1000g0      0      2:8:20:7b:d7:69   random              0
vnicoi1      e1000g0      0      2:8:20:34:49:1f   random              0
vniw7ie8     e1000g0      0      2:8:20:7b:6c:7c   random              0
vnicentos6   e1000g0      0      2:8:20:60:54:61   random              0
vnicub12     e1000g0      0      2:8:20:29:3f:5e   random              0
vnicxp2      e1000g1      1000   2:8:20:1a:35:95   random              0

Like Jim said with opensolaris or oi you have to configure the vnics 
manually and bridge each virtualbox vm to an individual vnic with the 
corresponding mac address.

For me without the vnic config it worked somehow, but networking speed on 
the *host* system was abysmal slow with a running vbox vm. As soon as the 
vm was suspended networking speed on the host system was back to normal.

Michael