Harry, On Tuesday 18 October 2011 03:26:32 Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > > Running Debian linux (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae > On an older intel P4 3.06 ghz cpu and 2 GB ram > > I gave the virtual machine 900MB ram. > I've installed guest os (Solaris [openindiana]) > I thought I noticed the machine being sluggish during install, but now > on first boot following install I see VB pegged at 95 % for minutes on end.
your conclusion is a bit surprising to me. You try to run Solaris, which is known to be an operating system more targeted to servers than to desktops with a limited amount of guest RAM (you should never try to install Solaris on a machine / in a VM with less than 1GB RAM) on an older desktop machine with a processor which is known to be suboptimal for virtualization (Pentium 4, no hardware virtualization, very long instruction pipeline, single core) on a host with only 2GB RAM. Sorry, but please don't expect a great performance on such hardware. For Solaris in a VM we suggest VT-x / AMD-V with nested paging (this feature has a different name with Intel and AMD) and at least 4GB host RAM and at least a dual core. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Senior Manager Software Development Desktop Virtualization, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven
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