[Discuss] VirtualBox question

[Adam Parkin]

"Virtual box runs on java."

Huh, Wikipedia seems to disagree with you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox says: "Written in C/C++".

Adam


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:40 PM, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
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