[vbox-dev] Network restoration after snapshot

Jaikumar G jaienigma at gmail.com
Mon May 21 19:07:51 GMT 2012


Hi Aleksey,


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Aleksey Ilyushin <
aleksey.ilyushin at oracle.com> wrote:

> Jaikumar,
>
> This behavior is intentional. Machine's state may be saved in one network
> environment, and restored in completely different one (VM on laptop that
> brought home from office, for example). VirtualBox forces the link down and
> back up after a timeout.
>

    I understand the need to bring the machine networking down and up. Is
the timeout configurable ? Seems like it slows down the restoration process
if the restoring is happening on the same machine.

Thanks



>
> Regards,
> Aleksey
>
> On May 21, 2012, at 9:52 PM, Jaikumar G wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >    When trying to restore a snaphot (of a paused machine) the network
> takes close to 5 secs to come back up.
> >
> > VBox Log snippet is below. I tried switching the adapter that I was
> using but that I didn't help either.
> >
> > Any pointers ?
> >
> > 00:00:01.343 HGCM: restoring [VBoxSharedFolders]
> > 00:00:01.343 HGCM: restoring [VBoxGuestControlSvc]
> > 00:00:01.343 HGCM: restoring [VBoxGuestPropSvc]
> > 00:00:01.343 HGCM: restoring [VBoxSharedClipboard]
> > 00:00:01.354 Changing the VM state from 'LOADING' to 'SUSPENDED'.
> > 00:00:01.354 Changing the VM state from 'SUSPENDED' to 'RESUMING'.
> > 00:00:01.354 Changing the VM state from 'RESUMING' to 'RUNNING'.
> > 00:00:01.362 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0,
> pvVRAM=00002abb5917a000 w=1024 h=768 bpp=16 cbLine=0x800, flags=0x1
> > 00:00:01.612 VUSB: attached 'HidMouse' to port 1
> > 00:00:06.364 PCNet#0: The link is back up again after the restore.
> > 00:00:07.473 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
> >
> > Thanks
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