>I have MS Virtual PC with a WinXP host running over AMD 4200+. Every
>3 minutes network connectivity between the host and guest dies for
>anywhere from 3 to 18 minutes. (I've written a program to ping host
>to guest, and gather stats on when it loses comms and for how long.)
>
>Both environments have full access to the internet, the host has full
>access to the LAN, the guest has "mostly stable" access to other PCs
>on the LAN even when there is no communication with the host.
>
>I have two guests where this occurs, Windows 2003 Server and Linux.
>this tells me the problem is related to VPC and the host, not a config
>issue in the guest.
>
>I'm thinking there is some program like (but not) Windows Update that
>is polling a remote server every 3 minutes, coincidentally on the same
>pipe, socket, or channel that VPC needs to communicate with the host.
>Is there such a pipe that is always open like for messaging of mouse
>activity, copy/paste buffers, etc? Might that be in conflict with
>some other commericialware?
>
>Thanks.