Windows 7 VM on Gnome Boxes will not update
I'm trying to use Gnome Boxes to run a Windows 7 Virtual Machine. Setup and installation went smoothly, but now that I have my windows box running, it cannot seem to contact the Windows Update server to get updates. It hangs on "checking for updates" indefinitely - i have left it for more than 24 hours. I have tried running updates from different networks, which doesn't help, so the issue is definitely somewhere in my computer. I have tried opening holes in the firewall for http and https and ports 80/443 (which are the ports and services windows update uses) but that didn't make any difference either. Any ideas what could be causing this?
I'm not familiar with Windows any longer, but I do have one trouble-shooting question: can you open a browser in that VM and surf the web? If not, you need to find out why you're not on-line, as that's probably why you can't update. If you can, somebody here will know how to help you.
Hi, i have the same problem. using win7 for 5 months now. eventually it will run but in my case it did 3 times. All the other times the windows update service uses 1 core, until you kill it. being a windows service it is restarted two times. I tried searching the web and found dozens of solutions, none worked so far.
I did open a browser and check the connection, the VM can get out to the internet just fine. I also imported an old virtualbox windows 7 vm that I had backed up, and tested that one. It was working on virtual box, however it cannot get updates when run on gnome-boxes. I'm very convinced that I have some kind of a configuration issue at play here.
OK, at least we've narrowed the issue down to gnome boxes, but alas, I can't take you any further. Here's hoping somebody else here knows what's needed.