I have not tried with other forms of networking yet, indeed it might
be a good idea to see how it behaves then. I am aware of the
limitations of NAT in VBox but in all honesty, I doubt that low-level
TCP stack would have much influence on the app I am trying to profile
(as long as the former works of course).

Anyhow, I'll try and report back.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Giles Coochey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-02-01 13:27, Jakub Skoczen wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'm really hoping someone might have some insight here. I am running
>> a
>> CentoOS 5 guest on my Mac configured with NAT. VB is forwarding two
>> ports to it: SSH (222->22) and a custom port to access my server
>> program (9010 -> 9003). All works nicely until I start pushing it a
>> bit harder with requests (I run jMeter on the host to perf test the
>> server program, using about 5 threads), at which point the networking
>> to the VM stops working, my SSH connections timeout and I can't ssh
>> in
>> anymore. The VM stays active and I can log in to it fine through the
>> VB console. I tried checking various system logs on the guest and
>> host, VB logs. Heck, I even tried increasing the number of per
>> process
>> open files on OS X (in case I'm running out of sockets) -- no luck.
>> Any ideas? How can I at least diagnose what the problem is?
>>
>>
>> VirtualBox 4.1.8
>> OS X 10.6.8
>> CentOS 5.7
>>
>
> This is not an authoritative statement, but I don't think it's a
> particularly good idea to do performance testing with a limited
> implementation of NAT as part of the test process, especially if your
> production environment will not be using that implementation.
> There are some limitations to the NAT within Virtualbox documented
> here: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#nat-limitations
>
> Do you get the same problem with a bridged or host only setup?
>
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