Unexpected TCP retransmissions

I am trying to debug a network using wireshark. I have a few VMs running on virtualbox. One of the VM is connected to the host using a "host only" interface. The host runs OVS through which all the VMs communicate. I ran wireshark on one of the VMs and the corresponding port on OVS and I see a number of TCP retransmissions. What can cause this?

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asked 13 Aug '12, 17:13

Abhishek Chanda
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I see the following, possible reasons:

a bug in the OpenFlow dissector (see also error message in the screenshot)
a bug in Open vSwitch
some kind of overload in your virtual environment, leading to drops within the Open vSwitch or one of the VMs
a bug in yor OS/application that handles the HTTP connection
any other strange problem, wich is unpredictable without further information about your system and software versions used.

Regards
Kurt

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answered 14 Aug '12, 03:28

Kurt Knochner ♦
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This turned out to be a problem with Virtualbox. I changed to KVM and its gone.

(23 Aug '12, 16:06) Abhishek Chanda

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