Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

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Worli
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Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

Post by Worli »

I found the same issue with my Debian 11 host. Tested with Windows 10 and 11. Upload to any other destination like storage box or also to the Internet is extremely slow, sometimes with interruptions. Any download to the Windows-Client runs fine with up to 110 MB/s. I tested with smb/cifs and ftp connections. Under virtualbox 6.x no issue. Any idea here?
Kind regards, Worli
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Re: Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

Post by scottgus1 »

Start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.

Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show in Explorer/Finder/File Manager. In the "Logs" subfolder, zip the VM's "vbox.log", and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab. (Configure your host OS to show all extensions so you can find the "vbox.log", not "vbox.log.1", etc.)
Worli
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Re: Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

Post by Worli »

Thank you, I did it exactly as you wrote. Kind regards, Worli
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Re: Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

Post by mpack »

00:00:00.061628 NumCPUs <integer> = 0x000000000000000c (12)
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00:00:00.228309 CPUM: Physical host cores: 12
Ouch. Even if you had 12 cores to give, why does this VM need them? I would reduce to 2 cores. 4 at most. Please remember that VirtualBox itself is a host app. Assigning more cores to guest code does not make VirtualBox run faster.

Also, going to a 2K display size without enabling graphics acceleration is going to be a problem. If possible you should enable 3D acceleration.

Let's see where we are after that.
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Re: Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

Post by Worli »

Well, you‘re of course absolutely right with the too many cores/cpu! Was only for testing. Normally its set to four. So niw its set to four. I also activated 3-D acceleration. But as long as it’s activated the vm doesn’t boot anymore. It hangs with the Windows recovery console (I never used 3D before….). Also no change in regards to the very slow „send“-performance of network: 355 KB/s. Receive performance is at ~117 MB/s.KR.
Worli
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Re: Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

Post by Worli »

I checked many settings as written in the postings and more. Since nothing led to a better network upload performance I changed the Windows 11 guest now to the following (workaround):

* Installed Guest additions: 6.1.44 (with 7.0.8 the windows guest always fully crashed after one minute)
* Network: NAT (with „Bridged“, the upload performance is still very bad!)
* Remote Display Server enabled (connect remotely now via host-ip + specific port)
* 3D-Acceleration disabled (when enabled, the guest completely crashes!)

So for me for the moment solved!
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Re: Network slow in one direction after 7.0.8 upgrade

Post by scottgus1 »

Worlii, I split your posts off to their own topic, per Do not hijack other threads, create your own. (another good reason not to me-too, but to start your own topic, it confuses OP's topic).

Glad you found a workaround!
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