Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-15 13:17, Carl Brewer wrote: On 15/02/2014 12:09 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: I think misconfig - dedicate VNICs on the host to each VM and see if it helps at least. Like from this page? : http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.3+KVM One per virtual machine (or, virtual machine's ethernet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-16 Thread Carl Brewer
On 16/02/2014 11:55 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2014-02-15 13:17, Carl Brewer wrote: On 15/02/2014 12:09 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: I think misconfig - dedicate VNICs on the host to each VM and see if it helps at least. Like from this page? : http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.3+KVM One per

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-16 22:57, Carl Brewer wrote: On 16/02/2014 11:55 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2014-02-15 13:17, Carl Brewer wrote: On 15/02/2014 12:09 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: I think misconfig - dedicate VNICs on the host to each VM and see if it helps at least. Like from this page? :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:22 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote: On 14-02-12 06:55 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 13/02/2014 12:27 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi Carl. I have a few OI+VBox boxes in production right now and I haven't experienced any networking failure. The only part isn't supported is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Hase
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote: On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: and dladm show-vnic? carl@hostie:~$ dladm show-vnic carl@hostie:~$ This is the problem, it should read like root@hp:~# dladm show-vnic LINK OVER SPEED MACADDRESSMACADDRTYPE

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-14 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/02/2014 7:48 PM, Michael Hase wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote: On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: and dladm show-vnic? carl@hostie:~$ dladm show-vnic carl@hostie:~$ This is the problem, it should read like root@hp:~# dladm show-vnic LINK OVER

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Hase
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote: On 14/02/2014 7:48 PM, Michael Hase wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote: On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: and dladm show-vnic? carl@hostie:~$ dladm show-vnic carl@hostie:~$ This is the problem, it should read like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-14 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-14 01:59, Carl Brewer wrote: On 14/02/2014 10:40 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: Under OpenSolaris and later, if you want properly working bridged interfaces, according to the docs you must create a VNIC with a unique MAC address, and you must configure the VM with the same MAC address on its

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-14 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 15/02/14 01:22, Carl Brewer wrote: Weird, why would it work at all if that wasn't running? Are there any howto's online that explains this? Crazy, this is the first I knew about this too. I have half a dozen VirtualBox VMs running in bridged mode and have never had a problem. Curious

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address correctly. I made the host a static address and both the interface, and the KVM have been up and working for 71 days without an issue. I'm not sure if you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/02/2014 9:02 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address correctly. I made the host a static address and both the interface, and the KVM have been up and working for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-13 21:41, Carl Brewer wrote: On 13/02/2014 9:02 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address correctly. I made the host a static address and both the interface,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/02/2014 9:12 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2014-02-13 21:41, Carl Brewer wrote: On 13/02/2014 9:02 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address correctly. I made the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-13 23:28, Carl Brewer wrote: On 14/02/2014 9:12 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: No, all static, all bridged. ...all bridged to individual OI vnics with mac addresses matching the MAC address of the NIC in VM? right? ;) whatever the default behaviour is, yes. For this configuration there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 52fd470d.3000...@bl.echidna.id.au, Carl Brewer writes: whatever the default behaviour is, yes. What is the output of VBoxManage showvminfo and dladm show-vnic? John groenv...@acm.org ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/02/2014 10:40 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: For this configuration there is no proper default, so this may be the culprit if I guessed correctly. Am I right to interpret your post as I did not configure anything special and just bridged all VM NICs over the same host OS interface? I just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: In message 52fd470d.3000...@bl.echidna.id.au, Carl Brewer writes: whatever the default behaviour is, yes. What is the output of VBoxManage showvminfo For each VM, trimmed for relevancy : carl@hostie:~$ VBoxManage showvminfo oldroll Name:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-02-13 05:06 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: In message 52fd470d.3000...@bl.echidna.id.au, Carl Brewer writes: whatever the default behaviour is, yes. What is the output of VBoxManage showvminfo For each VM, trimmed for relevancy :

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-12 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I have a pretty happy OI151a8 server running Virtualbox 4.3.6 It's got 3 guests (2 NetBSD, one CentOS 5). They mostly just burble along, except every now and then (roughly every 7-10 days) they lose network connectivity. The only way I've found to get them online again is to shut

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-02-12 04:43 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day, I have a pretty happy OI151a8 server running Virtualbox 4.3.6 It's got 3 guests (2 NetBSD, one CentOS 5). They mostly just burble along, except every now and then (roughly every 7-10 days) they lose network connectivity. The only way I've

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-12 Thread Carl Brewer
On 13/02/2014 12:27 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi Carl. I have a few OI+VBox boxes in production right now and I haven't experienced any networking failure. The only part isn't supported is the crossbow network stack, you need to use the streams version. They have absolutely been rock solid. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-02-12 06:55 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 13/02/2014 12:27 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi Carl. I have a few OI+VBox boxes in production right now and I haven't experienced any networking failure. The only part isn't supported is the crossbow network stack, you need to use the streams version.