CIFS shares and dead ethernet

[virtualhuman]

Hey everyone,

I've got a Fedora desktop running VirtualBox 7.2.2, with a VM running AlmaLinux 9.

I am running transmission torrent client, which saves files into a remote Samba/CIFS share.

Everything starts off nicely, it starts to download my ISO images at full speed, and it works for about 8 hours, then eventually the VM ethernet dies. The VM is not pigable and nothing I try can bring it back online. I can't even soft reboot because something is "stuck". I can only forcibly power off the VM.

This happens all the time, so its not a random occurrence.

Any ideas what I can try?

Thank you


PS:
In case it helps, here is how I mount the remote Samba/CIFS share:

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//192.168.1.1/ISOImages /mnt/ISOImages cifs _netdev,uid=transmission,gid=transmission,file_mode=0644,nosuid,nodev,serverino,cache=none,vers=3.1.1,credentials=/etc/transmission/secret.conf

PS2:
So far I've tried the following VM ethernet adapters and they all die:
- virtio-net
- 82540EM
- 82543GC
- 82545EM
- 82583V (the new experimental adapter, just started using it today, hasn't crashed so far)

[virtualhuman]

interestingly, the experimental adapter 82583V has stayed alive for 14 hours!!!

all the previous ones managed to die between 6 to 8 hours.

lets see if this lasts longer than 24 hours.