I run emerged Virtualbox 7.0.6 and its runs Windows 7-server, it is OK but trying to connect from another Virtualbox running Windows box on the network to Windows-7-server running on Virtualbox 7.0.6 is almost unusable. When I click on a program that request informaton/data from Virtualbox 7.0.6 Windows 7-server I had to wait 30 to 50sec. before the program responds. I downgraded server to Virtualbox-6.1.42 and it is not fast bat manageable. Reproducible: Always Portage 3.0.44 (python 3.10.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop, gcc-12, glibc-2.36-r7, 6.1.19-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-6.1.19-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Ryzen_7_3800X_8-Core_Processor-with-glibc2.36 KiB Mem: 32784764 total, 4957632 free KiB Swap: 524284 total, 524284 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:45:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: b5175e3f8ba07c5a2adcf75909d4e8d8cd2ecdc5 sh bash 5.1_p16-r2 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.39 p6) 2.39.0 app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.5::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16-r2::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.36.0-r2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.10.10_p3::gentoo, 3.11.2_p2::gentoo dev-lang/rust: 1.66.1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.25.3::gentoo dev-util/meson: 1.0.1::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.13-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.46::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.29::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.71-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.5::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.39-r5::gentoo sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 12.2.1_p20230121-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.10::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.7-r1::gentoo sys-devel/llvm: 15.0.7::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 6.1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.36-r7::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 volatile: True sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes brother-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/brother-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 volatile: True ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA @FREE PUEL-11" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /var/spool/fax/etc/xferfaxlog" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask-write=y --keep-going --with-bdeps=y" ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME" FCFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LEX="flex" MAKEOPTS="-j8 --load-average=8" PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" SHELL="/bin/bash" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 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mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-CA" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-4 php8-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres12 postgres13" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_10" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_10" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby30" SANE_BACKENDS="fujitsu epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq proto steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS
Please check and report the RAM usage and if it is swapping.
Box 1.) Running Gentoo, VirtualBox running Windows7-as a server it is hosting OpenDental mysql database Box 2.) Running Gentoo, VirtualBox running Windows7 or 10 running OpenDental and pull/write information to window-7-server on Box-1 After upgrading to VirtualBox-7.0.6 (both boxes) Box-1 running server was fast and responsive But Box-2 trying to pull/write information to Box-2 was almost non-responsive, every click of a mouse or any keystroke it took VirtualBox 30sec to 50sec to respond. Unusable. I downgraded Box-1 VirtualBox to 6.1.42-r1 and it is not fast but manageable. VirtualBox-7.0.6 is not usable for application running over network.
No, I did not notice any memory swap
How did you configure the networking? Does anything else run slow in this scenario, like for example are Windows shares visible and slow too?
(In reply to Viorel Munteanu from comment #4) > How did you configure the networking? Does anything else run slow in this > scenario, like for example are Windows shares visible and slow too? I setup, similar scenario at home, with VirtualBox 7.0.6 Box 1.) Running Windows 7 - server Box 2.) Running Windows 7 - client, connecting to MySQL on Box-1 When I start program on Box-2 and connect to server on Box-1 it took me 90sec. to connect. On VirtualBox 6.1.42 it is almost instant. After connecting, trying to do any operation with mouse click it take about 10sec. for server to respond. Normally it should be instant. The network setting in VirtualBox are default. Did not change anything. Try to browse files on Box-1 server, from Box-2 client is fast and responsive. So it seems to me VirtualBox 7.0.6 is unusable in this scenario.
Let's try to figure out if this is a networking issue, a high load on the server issue or simply something that triggers a bug. Things to try: - changing the networking options from NAT to Bridged - checking if the server becomes unresponsive (both the Windows server and the host while the server is bogged down) - checking if the virtual machine has enough memory - i.e., Windows may exhaust how much memory has been allocated to it and swap in a swapfile on C: - while waiting for the server to respond, try to launch task manager in Windows 7 on Box 1 and see what it shows.
(In reply to Viorel Munteanu from comment #6) > Let's try to figure out if this is a networking issue, a high load on the > server issue or simply something that triggers a bug. Things to try: > > - changing the networking options from NAT to Bridged > - checking if the server becomes unresponsive (both the Windows server and > the host while the server is bogged down) > - checking if the virtual machine has enough memory - i.e., Windows may > exhaust how much memory has been allocated to it and swap in a swapfile on C: > - while waiting for the server to respond, try to launch task manager in > Windows 7 on Box 1 and see what it shows. - Network option are in Bridge mode on both boxes. - Both VirtualBoxes have about 2600MB left CPU is barely at 2% - Task Manager on Box-1 (server) is not showing anything, on Box-2 (the client) when I start the program Task Manager is showing program is not responding and after about 90sec. it connects. Same happens when the program starts whenever I click on anything it task manager is showing not responding and after about 10sec. it connects. It is happening with every click of a mouse on Box-2
I've just seen this ticket https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/21881 Can you check how many cores you have and how many of them are assigned to VirtualBox? Try to assign half minus one, see if the situation improves.
VirtualBox-7.0.10 has the same problem as 7.0.6 Then networking is very slow almost unresponsive. Why do they stabilize something that doesn't work!
