I think I'l have to do some testing sometime to see if that is a factor. My personal experience with cat5 cable has been quite different, although perhaps your point re the NICs themselves is also a factor (which I hadn't considered TBH). Thus the reason for the XP license(s) I was trying to use. I'm trying use up a bunch of P4 systems a customer gave me during their last upgrade. For now I'm trying not to purchase a bunch of hardware for testing. ProxMox seems nice but I need to work with it to get comfortable and for now my test hardware doesn't have virtuaization built in. I'm comfortable enough to risk putting it in production if all tests well. I'm going to give the phpvirtualbox option a serious go.
I took a look at your other suggestions, mainly to ditch XP as the host.
I need to move on to the actual appliance work I need to do. I think something is mucked up between my XP install and VB. I am only getting 100Mbps data transfer rate between host and VM which is weird. I do get full 1Gbps client to host data transfer speeds which makes me think that the cable isn't the problem. Over 100ft even Cat-6 has given me some headaches unless the NIC and switch are the same brand. I haven't had many problems under 25ft with Cat-5. I ordered some Cat-6 cables just in case. Virtualbox 4.0.6, Turnkey Fileserver 11.1, FreeNAS 0.7 & 0.8 I am planning on 2 VMs on this system so I don't want to abandon Virtualbox. The CPU use during the transfer is about 20% in the Host and about 5%-10% in the VM. Everything says I have 1Gbps in the VM, Virtualbox and Host. Also people suggest I haven't set the nic to 1Gbps in VM or Virtualbox or that I am using a 100Mbps switch which I am not.Īgain the client to host is many times faster than 100Mbps as well as Host to Host. I keep getting suggestions that the Hard Drives are the problem, but they can't be due to the host D: to host E: working at full speed. I've exhausted my searching on Google for solutions to the problem. I have reinstalled the Host OS and the client OS several times. The client shows lots of free memory and the VM shows lots of free memory. When I transfer a file between client and VM or between host and VM I get almost exactly 100Mbps speeds. But I still want to use Bridged mode if at all possible. Please note, the Host Only reports 100Mbps and I don't know how to change that. Turnkey Fileserver and FreeNAS both report the network as 1Gbps. I have set the VM to use the Intel 1000 nic and set the VM with the command line to 1000000. The Host isn't used for anything except running Virtualbox.
C: is a Compact Flash and the page file is on D. I can copy a large file from D: to E: on the Host at about the same speed. I can transfer files to and from a shared folder on the XP Host at 56MB/s. I have a Windows XP SP3 host with a Gb nic plugged into a Gb switch connecting at 1Gb.
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