On 2/23/2012 4:12 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
Claude Jones<cjoneslists<at> tehogeeservices.com> writes:
I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had
problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but
tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the
guest additions about the 'experimental x' version. Every aspect of what
I do is slow; bootup takes many minutes, logging in takes over a couple
of minutes, opening windows or programs, everything. I'm running the
latest version of VirtualBox from Oracle on a Win7 machine with an i5
CPU and 4 GB of ram. I've allocated 2 GB to the Fedora VM. Does anyone
else have this problem?
Yes, for me with VirtualBox 4.1.8, the F15 and F16 guests are reasonably fast,
but the F17 and Rawhide guests are very slow. I get gnome shell using hardware
passthrough on the F15 and F16 guests, but am unsure whether that's the case on
the F17 and Rawhide guests, or if it's using software rendering. Presumably
hardware passthrough would be faster.
I also found that building the Guest Additions automatically using dkms as
described in
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idp11277648
works in F15 and F16 but not in F17 or Rawhide, so I have to do it manually
there. If you get an error building the OpenGL extensions, you can work around
that by issuing the command
export MAKE='/usr/bin/gmake -i'
before installing the Guest Additions.
Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I understand it. Are you saying that
I should open a terminal and issue that 'export' command, then run the
installation of guest additions again?
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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