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Preferred network adapter for windows guest with Vbox 6.x

Posted: 25. Aug 2019, 07:49
by gnordli
Hi Everyone.
What is the preferred network adapter now with Vbox 6?
thanks,
Geoff

Re: Preferred network adapter for windows guest with Vbox 6.x

Posted: 25. Aug 2019, 10:26
by socratis
The one that's always been; the one proposed by the template, depending on the guest.

Not sure why such a question came up... Why do you ask, do you think that something changed with 6.0.x?

Re: Preferred network adapter for windows guest with Vbox 6.x

Posted: 25. Aug 2019, 17:42
by gnordli
Hi socratis.

There has been a lot of work on paravirtualization. I was just making sure nothing has changed on the networking front.

Have a great day!!
Geoff

Re: Preferred network adapter for windows guest with Vbox 6.x

Posted: 25. Aug 2019, 18:17
by socratis
gnordli wrote:There has been a lot of work on paravirtualization
Has it? :shock:
Where exactly?

Re: Preferred network adapter for windows guest with Vbox 6.x

Posted: 27. Aug 2019, 17:21
by gnordli
Oh, maybe that was 5.0 where they did the paravirt work. Sorry, my bad there. I used to stay current on all the releases and even do performance testing, but now I just "use" it.

Re: Preferred network adapter for windows guest with Vbox 6.x

Posted: 27. Aug 2019, 19:13
by socratis
No problem, I get confused all the time as well with features in/features out... :)

But don't go crazy believing that virtio-net will do miracles for you. We just had a discussion the other day on the IRC #vbox channel, and the maximum throughput that (a really dedicated) user could get was 2 Gbps, nothing super-duper...