Receiving Networkpackets in VirtualBox
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| Hi, today I come to you with another problem :D Setup: I have a Host running Linux, a VirtualBox with a XP-Guest. Networking in VBox is set to bridge - so the virtual xp gets a XP in my LAN instead of a "guest and host only network". As I'm running a SVN Repo (so my AI programmers can have access etc.) and I don't want to commit each change to test my multiplayer mode (LAN Broadcasting etc.) I decided to use a shared folder. So on my Linux host i have a directory with my code, this directory is shared via samba as smb share to the VirtualBox-XP. If compiled within XP ... it takes ages (20 seconds for a quick compile) as LAN-per-file-access isn't that fast (same for real XP on a Notebook connected per Lan or Wlan). Ok I thought about adding a shared folder (a VirtualBox solution - it's like mapping a networking path to a drive but circumventing the whole packetthingies the normal network mapped drive of xp uses). Running (or compile-run) a program from this shared folder (which ends in the same directory on my host) then has the problem of not receiving broadcasts (or packets in general). So the question is: how to enable a VirtualBox-sharedfolder-running-programm to receive networking packets. Another question is: how to speed up "per lan compile" (1gbit connection) - a difference between <1sec (local copy) and 20-25sec (remote) can't be called marginal :D. bye Ron |
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| Another question is: how to speed up "per lan compile" (1gbit connection) - a difference between <1sec (local copy) and 20-25sec (remote) can't be called marginal :D. Unfortunately the TCP/IP protocol is *much* more efficient with large files than it is with small ones -- any transfer starts slowly, and then ramps up in speed. If you're transferring/touching/whatever a ton of small files it can be pretty slow, even over gigabit. |
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