Re: [VBox-users] Network issues in VBOX 5.1.8

[Michael T. <mic...@or...>]

Hello Tom,

Sounds to me like you have issues there which deserve bug reports. 
Would you be able to file a couple<1>?

Regards
Michael

<1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker

16.11.2016 01:02, Tom McArthur пишет:
> Downgrading to 5.0.16 fixes this network problem.
>
> The next problem that 5.1.8 introduced was video related. I use
> VirtualBox on a Dell Precision M6500 laptop, and while at work it is
> connected to an external monitor. I don't remember where or how I
> configured it, but when the external monitor is connected and I select
> Full Screen in VirtualBox, my Win7 VM snaps to the external monitor.
> That worked great in 5.0.16. I could even use xrandr to disable the
> external monitor, and the VM would switch between the external monitor
> and the laptop screen. Well, 5.1.8 not only broke that process, but
> every time the external monitor is enabled or disabled with xrandr, the
> VM would crash. Tomorrow I'll see whether or not downgrading to 5.0.16
> also fixes that problem.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 11/14/2016 09:20 PM, Tom McArthur wrote:
>> I'm running 64bit VBOX 5.1.8 with a Win7 guest on a Mageia 5 host.
>>
>> After upgrading to 5.1.8, the virtual network will not time out in the
>> Win7 guest. In other words, any app that tries to access any
>> unavailable network resource freezes indefinitely. The only solution
>> is to disable the virtual network adapter, which immediately allows
>> the app to wake up and complain about the network being unavailable.
>>
>> Specific examples: an emulator for a mainframe, Notepad++ with a file
>> open that lives on the network at work, xplorer2 with a network folder
>> open. All of these are completely frozen while the network is
>> unavailable.
>>
>

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