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Hello,
Thanks for your answers, please help me to find a solution with the follow issue:

Background:
I have a windows XP Virtual Machine (vm) on windows 7 host, in my host I had a share folder with all people of my department and there we usually share files, tutorials, videos, somethings like that, but for audit reasons I copied all this folder to my vm (it´s out for audit), so I usually used the vm to navigate on internet, test software, etc., and I connected with a VPN, and that made that all copy-paste to the share folder takes a huge amount of time.

Issues:
1. I can´t disconnect the VPN because I used to navigate to internet and also the people that want takes some file from the share folder can´t take it out, because the vm hide it.
2. The response time to copy a simple file of 3 Mb it´s a 3 minutes because when I have connected the VPN the file use the VPN network and not the local network.


I think that I can set up the vm with 2 networks, one to use the local network and the other one to use with the VPN, but I don´t know how to do it, this is the firts time that I see this issue, I don´t know if I need change the OS from XP to a Server of something like that, please help me with this situation.

Regards

In my limited VPN experience, the VPN software completely takes over the network stack, rendering other networks unreachable.

Yes, two NICs in the host is the best solution. Sharing a NIC used for a VPN connection with a vm is usually unsatisfactory.

Controlling how the two NICs behave is controlled through the network settings in the host OS, not through VirtualBox. If you want a NIC in the host to be dedicated to the host OS, clear the check box for the VirtualBox bridged networking driver. No vm can use this interface. To dedicate a NIC to vms, clear all boxes except this driver. Vms can use this NIC but the host cannot.

Thanks for the answers, well I can´t solved the issue with just one vm and I had to create another vm with Ubuntu with Samba to check each user to the FileStorage, this is a dirty solution to me because I really want to know how to solve this issue without two vm, if someone can do it please let me know.