[Discuss] VirtualBox question

[Cy Schubert]

I use CentOS and Fedora under VBox. They do a relatively OK job to keep 
GuestAdditions up do date though there is bit of a lag of maybe a month, 
probably because VBox developers are not considered "inner circle."


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In message <53F0DF8A.8040006 at shaw.ca>, John Blomfield writes:
> Thanks for the feedback on this question. I have now decided not to 
> bother with Linux guests for testing on VBox anymore; they seem to have 
> too many problems. I think part of the problem is that VBox versions do 
> not keep up with the new Linux versions because if you install older 
> versions of the same distro they work much better. This defeats the 
> object of the exercise as far as I am concern, which is to test new 
> Linux distros. It's not so convenient as VBox but running live iso's or 
> installing on a spare partition does provide a reliable view of a new 
> Linux version.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On 08/16/2014 07:03 AM, John Blomfield wrote:
> > On 08/15/2014 11:18 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:
> >> In message <53EE813F.2000708 at shaw.ca>, John Blomfield writes:
> >>> 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?
> >> Make sure your kernel modules are loaded properly.
> >>
> >> What kind of hardware are you using? Does it support VT-x (Intel) or 
> >> AMD-V
> >> (AMD also calls this SVM). Also enable nested paging if your hardware
> >> supports it. If your hardware doesn't support these features VBox will
> >> emulate in software which is ten times slower than in hardware.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes my hardware has AMD-V and nested paging.
> >
> 
> 
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