[Discuss] VirtualBox question

[pw]

Hello,

Virtual box runs on java.
Not sure about benchmarks for openjdk but I have noticed that some
  things slightly faster if you install oracle java.

Having said that, java was probably a lousy choice for
development of an emulator. I think the expectation was that
Moores' law would have taken us farther than it actually did,
thus hiding the inefficiencies of the actual java language.

The interaction of java with the 2.6 kernel and various layers
in linux makes things lock up if you try too many java things at the 
same time. (ie: run virtual box and a java applet in host web browser.)

Java does that in windows too.

The failings of java are just optimized better in windows because
they spent more time working on support for that O.S. during
development.

There are other virtual machines but virtual box is the best
'FREE' one.


Peter


On 08/15/2014 02:53 PM, John Blomfield wrote:
> I use VirtualBox for running the odd Windows program I need and also for
> testing any Linux distro that I want to try and I have found that the
> Linux distros run very very slowly compared to Windows Vista. My host
> distro is OpenSuse 13.1 and my computer has 8 GB of Ram, which I share
> 4GB to OpenSuse and 4GB to any virtual machine I am running. Does anyone
> have any answers why Linux distros should run slowly on VirtualBox?
>