I have not found that "server" vs "desktop" in the network adapter interferes, unless the guest OS has built-in drivers for one instead of the other. Other "server-class" capabilities like teaming & VLANs might be in one vs the other, and might be more suitable for setting up in the host hardware instead of the guest. FWIW XP has built-in drivers for the T server, not the MT Desktop. The 10/100/1000mbps of the different cards does not factor in, Virtualbox feeds network data to the guest as fast as the host hardware can receive it.Syntetik Vision wrote:use Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545EM) since this is a server instead of Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)
"Virtualbox Networks In Pictures" is about the kinds of networking available in the "Attached To" dropdown, not the "Adapter Type" dropdown. It's for what the guest networks to, not what card is used in the guest hardware. Often, the card picked by the New Guest Wizard when the guest is first set up is the best one to continue using, because the guest has built-in drivers for it.