[vbox-dev] Recent linux kernel commit breaks VBox networking

[Larry Finger]

On 01/18/2011 01:16 PM, walt wrote:
> Hi VBox team,
> 
> This recent linux kernel commit breaks networking on VBox guests.  Why
> should
> a file-system change affect networking, I wonder? I'm running the latest
> OSE
> from your svn repo.
> 
> commit e462c448fdc89252d631b26ff0ed4f7ad6fe8ed2
> Author: Davide Libenzi
> Date:   Wed Jan 12 17:00:25 2011 -0800
> 
>     pipe: use event aware wakeups
> 
>     Send the events the wakeup refers to, so that epoll, and even the
> new poll
>     code in fs/select.c can avoid wakeups if the events do not match the
>     requested set.

Just a little more info: Bridged networking works, but NAT fails.