Why does network connection hang in virtual machines while downloading large files?
Issue
- Installed virtio drivers in windows 2008 from virtio-win-1.1.16.iso.
- When downloading a very large file over the network, the virtual machine loses connection to the network.
- The physical host is unaffected and other virtual machines on the same bridge are also unaffected.
- It seems a failure of virtio network driver.
- The old driver installed from virtio-win-1.0.1-52454.iso, was not having this issue.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x (host)
- Windows 2008, 2008 R2 (guest)
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