Contents

 

 

9.13.2

Configuring the boot server (next server) of a NAT network in-

 

 

terface

. . 149

 

9.13.3 Tuning TCP/IP buffers for NAT

. . 149

 

9.13.4 Binding NAT sockets to a specific interface

. . 149

 

9.13.5 Enabling DNS proxy in NAT mode

. . 150

 

9.13.6 Using the host’s resolver as a DNS proxy in NAT mode . . . .

. . 150

9.14

Configuring the maximum resolution of guests when using the graphi-

 

cal frontend

. . 150

9.15

Configuring the BIOS DMI information

. . 151

9.16

Configuring the guest time stamp counter (TSC) to reflect guest execution152

9.17

Configuring the hard disk vendor product data (VPD)

. . 152

10 VirtualBox programming interfaces

154

11 Troubleshooting

155

11.1

General

. . 155

 

11.1.1

Collecting debugging information

. . 155

 

11.1.2 Guest shows IDE/SATA errors for file-based images on slow host

 

 

file system

. . 155

 

11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE/SATA flush requests

. . 156

11.2

Windows guests

. . 157

 

11.2.1

Windows bluescreens after changing VM configuration . . . . . 157

 

11.2.2

Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled (IPI timeout) . . 157

 

11.2.3 Windows 2000 installation failures

. . 157

 

11.2.4 How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests

. . 158

 

11.2.5 No networking in Windows Vista guests

. . 158

 

11.2.6 Windows guests may cause a high CPU load

. . 158

11.3

Linux and X11 guests

. . 159

 

11.3.1 Linux guests may cause a high CPU load

. . 159

 

11.3.2

AMD Barcelona CPUs

. . 159

 

11.3.3 Buggy Linux 2.6 kernel versions

. . 159

 

11.3.4

Shared clipboard, auto-resizing and seamless desktop in X11

 

 

guests

. . 159

11.4

Windows hosts

. . 160

 

11.4.1 VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues

. . 160

 

11.4.2 CD/DVD changes not recognized

. . 160

 

11.4.3 Sluggish response when using Microsoft RDP client

. . 161

 

11.4.4 Running an iSCSI initiator and target on a single system . . .

. . 161

11.5

Linux hosts

. . 162

 

11.5.1 Linux kernel module refuses to load

. . 162

 

11.5.2 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found

. . 162

 

11.5.3

Linux host CD/DVD drive not found (older distributions) . . . . 162

 

11.5.4 Linux host floppy not found

. . 163

 

11.5.5 Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD .

. . 163

 

11.5.6

VBoxSVC IPC issues

. . 163

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