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

[Michael Hase]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote:

> On 14/02/2014 7:48 PM, Michael Hase wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Weird, why would it work at all if that wasn't running?
>
> Are there any howto's online that explains this?

Found this workaround for my nfs performance problems on the virtualbox 
board:

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=45416

Although I have no technical explanation for this behaviour.

Michael