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kiri
Asked: 2013-10-25 22:58:48 +0800 CST

Using trickle to limit the bandwidth of a VirtualBox VM

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I'm trying to limit the bandwidth of a virtual machine running via VirtualBox.

trickle -d 5 virtualbox doesn't work, I believe because of an issue with child processes
(trickle -d 5 sudo apt-get upgrade doesn't work either)

How can I limit the download/upload bandwidth of VirtualBox's VMs?

bandwidth

1 Answers

  1. VirtualBox has bandwidth limiting that you can enable via VboxManage.
    See http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit

    Limits are configured through VBoxManage. The example below creates a bandwidth group named "Limit", sets the limit to 20 Mbit/s and assigns the group to the first and second adapters of the VM:

       VBoxManage bandwidthctl "VM name" add Limit --type network --limit 20m
   VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --nicbandwidthgroup1 Limit
   VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --nicbandwidthgroup2 Limit
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