"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:iqd84f$2bv3$1...@digitalmars.com... > "Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message > news:iq9ujn$111t$1...@digitalmars.com... >> >> The only problem I'm having now (aside from the fact that I haven't >> attempted to deal with the other shared host server yet - the debian one >> from the horrible ipower company), is that CentOS 4.2 (or maybe it's just >> KDE) runs so slow in a VM that it frequently doesn't recognize when I let >> go of a key and so then it goes off doing crazy shit. :/ Or it'll swap >> my key presses if I type too fast. At one point I had a hell of a time >> just getting it to let me type in "cd dmd" correctly. (I don't think it's >> entirely because of my computer though. XP runs just fine in a VM for me, >> even with only 192MB RAM allocated to it instead of the 512MB given to >> CentOS 4.2) So I'm going to try putting CentOS 4.9 in a VM and replacing >> KDE with XFCE. And I'll also have VirtualBox enable 3D accel and see if >> maybe then the "VirtualBox Guest Additions" package will be able to use >> OpenGL. >> > > It turns out the problem is rooted in the fact that 2.6 kernel uses > 1,000Hz for...umm...something or other...whereas the 2.4 kernel only used > 100Hz. Seems that's caused a lot of big performance problems in VMs. > Apperently this was sorted out in one of the CentOS 5.x point releases, > but CentOS 4 needs to use a specially-built kernel. Which, of course, I > don't have a f'ing clue how to do.
Hmm, it seems what it needs are some "Kernel Parameters", however the hell those are applied: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427 > I did find some pre-made "VM-ified CentOS" VMs here: > http://people.centos.org/tru/vmware/ I got the > "centos-4-20100321/CentOS-4_desktop.i386.zip" one, and it seems to work > except that X doesn't run because it complains it can't find any screens > (or something like that). Not a clue on how to fix that, but the text-mode > commandline + VirtualBox's shared folder's should hopefully be enough for > me to at least get by. > Ah. I installed the VirtualBox's Guest Additions, rebooted, and then X was working just fine :) And nice and zippy too this time (relatively speaking, of course, but it's *much* better now and actually usable). I do need to re-install the guest additions again now to get the fancy seamless integrated-mouse stuff that's part of the guest additions. But it all seems good now :)
