Virtual box locking network with outgoing??

**einstein**-7** · February 1st, 2014

I'm running virutal box on 12.04 with a virtual 12.04 and I have the network type setup as bridge but as soon as the virtual machine starts up virtual box sends 50-200k outgoing to the router and locks down the router for the real and virtual machine.. Screenshot shows the situation, Why is this ???????

**bashiergui** · February 2nd, 2014

What do you mean "locks down the router?"

**einstein**-7** · February 2nd, 2014

Originally Posted by bashiergui

What do you mean "locks down the router?"

The outgoing trafic is so high than the bandwidth available for incoming is super slow. Takes a full minute for a "apt-get update" normal, 8 sec..

**bashiergui** · February 2nd, 2014

Sounds like a memory shortage. What are your host and guest RAM & hdd sizes?

If you weren't aware, VMs typically run slower than a host OS unless you have a powerful machine.

**einstein**-7** · February 2nd, 2014

Originally Posted by bashiergui

Sounds like a memory shortage. What are your host and guest RAM & hdd sizes?

If you weren't aware, VMs typically run slower than a host OS unless you have a powerful machine.

The screenshot shows I'm running on an i7 with 24GB ram... virtual machine 1 core 3Ghz 2Gb ram this is a network issue- as soon as I start a virtual machine the "sent" network traffic shoots up and slows down the internet for the real and virtual machine the systems run fine..

**bashiergui** · February 2nd, 2014

So it does, I missed it. If your router allows you to configure QoS then have you adjusted it? I assume you don't have the same issues when no VM is running.

**einstein**-7** · February 5th, 2014

Originally Posted by bashiergui

So it does, I missed it. If your router allows you to configure QoS then have you adjusted it? I assume you don't have the same issues when no VM is running.

Correct, no issues when no vm is running. Unfortunatly I cant set the qos on my router.... Its wack that virtual box would be sending so much information out though and no one else seems to have this particualr issue??

**bashiergui** · February 5th, 2014

If you're familiar with Wireshark or tcpdump, I'd recommend you look at the packets the VM is sending. That might narrow it down to a network or software problem.

**einstein**-7** · February 6th, 2014

Ok, found the problem!! tcpdump shows a constant stream of udp packets going from my real machine to Ip 224.0.etc but only after a virtual machine is started. Friend mentioned that udp is usally multimedia so after googling that IP with pulseaudio I found this bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44777 this is older but exact same thing here. Temp solution is to start the VM and Kill pulseaudio which then restarts itself but no crazy stream.