Karl von Randow

Slow networking to host computer from Debian in Microsoft Virtual PC

After installing Debian Lenny in Microsoft Virtual PC I tried to copy files from my Windows desktop to the virtual PC by SCP/SFTP and by mounting the drive using Samba. The copy speeds were very slow and errors showed up on eth0 when running ifconfig.

This appears to be a problem when sharing the network adapter between the virtual machine and real machine. Accessing network resources on a different machine are not slow.

I couldn’t get any other network adapter configuration (in the virtual machine settings) to work, maybe because of firewalling on Windows 7.