Personal Blog of Mike Bowden

So here lately I’ve been having problems with one of my Windows XP VM’s. When I resume the VM from a suspend, the network doesn’t seem to want to work. I’ve tinkered, edited and patched all I could but with no avail. After dealing with it for a few weeks I finally have come up with a way to resolve the issue. It’s really simple and I’ve done in multiple times and it seems to work each and every time.

Get Windows XP VM Network Back After Resume

1. Resume your VM
2. Go to your Network settings
   • Start
   • Settings
   • Network Connections
3. Find your Local Area Connection
4. Right click and Disable
5. Wait for it to finish
6. Right click Enable
7. Wait for it to finish
8. Right click Repair

Once it finishes repairing the connection, simply hit close and then close the network connections window. This should make your bridged network connection start functioning again between the VM and OS X. Hope this helps, took me a little while to find the right combination, but this works for me every time.

If anyone has a fix or another way to resolve this issue, please by all means let me know. I’d love to find a resolution to this issue so I don’t have to bother with it anymore or maybe another way to fix it when it does happen. Doesn’t hurt to have multiple ways.

So I recently decided to update my Leopard install with the most recent update that was released. It is actually an older update, there is one that was released after this one. But I’d like to mention this one for one simple fact.

Over the past few weeks we have noticed that our office network has been lack luster to say the least. Pings between computers were so high, you’d think that the computers were in another country. After reading through the notes for the combo update that all the Macs in our office needed, I figured that it might help resolve the issue as our problem dealt with Flow Control which is a feature on our Comcast Business Class Router/Modem.

After installing the update we went back through and ran some tests on our network and to our surprise, the issue had been resolved. We went from a few hundred MS to each computer down to below 10ms, which is closer to what it should be on a local network with wireless clients and multiple hubs/routers setup.

So if you’re having problems with your network, computers connected via a wireless connection are running really slow and your pings are insanely slow for a local network, give the 10.5.7 OS X update a try, it will probably resolve your issues.

More about the update can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3397