On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:45:58 UTC, Andy Staszko
<andy.staszko@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> OK, I've given up on SVista for the following reasons:
> 1. networking worked up to a point,
> 2. it's become a dead product,
> 3. it's too slow
>
> I've got W2kSP4 installed as a guest and it's fast.
> However, I'm having problems with the networking.
> Has anyone got it working so that the guest cab see
> the internet?
>
> Andy Staszko
I have it working, and I have a -- ummm-- reather unique setup (I
think). I had no real problem, until I tried to add VBOX networking to
the mix. I had to back that out to keep SVISTA networking going. All I
did was follow the directions, for the SVISTA Bridged network, and it
works fine. (SVISTA will be scrapped, as barely usable, in the near
future, unless I can find a way to add VBOX networking, without
killing SVISTA networking).
Oh, you want to know what is so unique? Okay, to make it brief, I have
two NICS. One is an Intel 10/100 Pro, using the Intel driver. The
other is an NFORCE 4, using the GENMAC wrapper driver. The Intel is
attached directlry to my router, and the NFORCE 4 connects through a
hub (along with three other systems), to the same router. I have the
Virtual PC network switch attached to the Intel NIC, and I have the
SVISTA Bridged network attached to the NFORCE 4. The NFORCE 4 has a
fixed address of 192.168.0.7, which really isn't used. The Intel NIC
gets it's address from the router, by DHCP (currently,
192.168.200.104). Now, when I run an SVISTA system, the guest sees the
NIC as the RTL8029 compatible, which seems to work fine (except it
operates as a 10 mbs network card, which is pretty slow, sometimes).
Windows (98, 2K sp4, and XP), all seem to be happy with it, after they
discover it, and configure it. All of the SVISTA guest systems also
get their addresses from the router, communicating through the NFORCE
4 NIC, and the HUB, using DHCP, so they get addresses in the
192.168.200.1xx range, which puts all of the systems in the same
range, and they can communicate (including with the Intel NIC, on the
same physical machine, through the hub, and the router). The VPC
switch is connected to the Intel card, they also get their addresses
from the router, but they use the Intel NIC for communications.
Internet access works, as expected, and NETBIOS over TCPIP also works,
as expected, although WinXP doesn't really work very well with NETBIOS
over TCPIP (which also happens with a real WinXP system). As I said,
the 192.168.0.7 address really isn't used, so the main (Host) system
cannot actually communicate through the NFORCE 4 NIC, and it just
ignores it, unless I hook up something else in that address range.
One other thing, that seems to help, is to set:
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=NO
in CONFIG.SYS. This is usually set to YES, to make the foreground
programs work better, but I have seen some indication that, when the
foreground program is a virtual machine, the system services are
sometimes starved for cycles, since the virtual machine uses so many.
That results in things like network access, not working too good, and
that is especially noticable with VBOX.
FWIW, I have also used SVISTA on my laptop, with only 192 meg of main
memory. Win98 works, with about 80 meg of memory assigned. It has an
Intel 10/100 NIC as well, and the SVISTA Bridged networking works with
that setup too (VPC works better, and I haven't tried VBOX on it).
Hope some of this helps...
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From the eComStation 2.0 RC2 of Doug Bissett
dougb007 at telus dot net
(Please make the obvious changes, to e-mail me)
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:49:24 UTC, Paavo Nurminen <paavo.nurminen@lut.fi>
wrote:
> Allan wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:45:58 UTC, Andy Staszko
<andy.staszko@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've got W2kSP4 installed as a guest and it's fast.
> >> However, I'm having problems with the networking.
> >> Has anyone got it working so that the guest can see
> >> the internet?
> >
> > I haven't tested W2K , only XP, but that works fine without
> > doing anything particular. Just setup networking as NAT,
> > and it should work.
> >
>
> I have installed XP Pro both with NAT and HIF networking. They work
> fine. To the previous version I have installed w2k with NAT networking.
> It works, too.
Hi,
I have W2k working ok with NAT but I can't get HIF to do anything
except slow down the host internet access.
I have a static LAN with threee or four machines behind a separate
router.
How did you set up both the host & guest, static or DHCP?
Cheers,
Dave
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