VirtualBox on FreeBSD – Don’t use lagg0 and don’t use NAT

So my networking on my host has been extremely slow and choppy on my VM guests. I read somewhere to not use NAT but when I tried to turn off NAT, I could never get and IP address. Turns out that was the fault of lagg.

I have disabled lagg and configured my VMs to use bridging mode and suddenly my host is extremely fast.

Also, when I accidently configured my VM to use iwn0 instead of wlan0, the system hung, followed by a reboot.

So lets sum up the three tips for using VirtualBox on FreeBSD:

  1. Don’t use lagg on the host.
  2. Don’t use NAT.
  3. Don’t configure the guest to use your wireless device using iwn0, but make sure to use wlan0.

One Comment

  1. Dr.Death says:

    same happen to me, if i put rum0 the system hung and reboot.

    did you manage to use the wifi usb on the guest OS ?

    on the guest os it show me that there is no wireless interface!

    from the vbox setting i can add new rule for the usb's.
    i follow this guid but no luck: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox#USB_support

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