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Hello,

I am having this very hard-to-diagnose problem: my Windows XP guest hangs totally numb, apparently when it attempts to do some certain type of network-related activity. It's very hard to diagnose, because sometimes the hangup happens just at random, I just speculate that some windows subsystem or some of open applications attempts to do some generic network-related stuff.

Why do I assume this network relation at all? Because I can force the hangup, if I go and do something banal like Start/Connect to/Show all connections. And this hangup is never released.

A bit about my vbox config: the host is Kubuntu 9.04, vbox version 3.0.6 r52128, guest network is simple NAT. No special config on the router that serves as the gateway to the Internet, no special network config on the host. Funny thing is that the Internet on the guest works pretty well, I can open up webpages in FF with streaming Flash video, update Kaspersky, etc. I have no idea what is that specific thing that makes it go numb.

Perhaps there's some mode how the guest system could be ran with some error console? I'd be thankful for any advice that would help me to move at least one step forward in solving this mistery.

Passiday

What do the VBox logs show you? Also there has been a lot of compatibility problems with Kaspersky. Maybe you should try to turn this off for a bit and see if the problem goes away. You can search bugtracker (link is below my post) for Kaspersky and see if it tells you anything.

Yay!!! Closing Kaspersky removed the predictable hanging when attempting to open the network connections. This makes me wonder however why did I purchase those extra licences for the Kaspersky, and what antivirus program VBox users use to run their internet-connected Win guests, because doing it without antivirus perhaps dooms one to make too much of PC state managament.

Log files don't show anything very suspicious, but then again I might not recognize the unusuality symptomes there.

Thanks for the fix!

Passiday

Well I use Free AVG and install one on each Windows guest. Network virus software usually causes problems in a virtual environment. I also do not scan my Virtual folders with the virus software on the host I exclude them. That was taking a lot of computer cycles for nothing since the individual units do it themselves.