..."faster than"...
sorry for the misspelling
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Leonardo Carneiro <[email protected]>wrote:
> well, giving virtualbox direct access to a partition indeed is faster then
> using a vdi file, but that not seems to be the problem. vdi files are more
> than enough to most cases, so there is no reason to kill a fly with a cannon
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:29 PM, vbox-users <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> > From: Boris [mailto:[email protected]]
>> >
>> > being a fan of VirtualBox since long pre-Oracle, I downloaded the actual
>> > version from two weeks ago (4.2.4r81684) and installed it on a brand-new
>> > HP Notebook 4740s with Win7-64bit.
>> >
>> > Some days before, I prepared a virtual WinXP on my Debian-Notebook with
>> > VirtualBox 3.x with some software that should run later on the HP.
>> >
>> > So I exported the VM an imported it on the HP.
>> >
>> > Now that I have the final installation I realized the VM is awesome
>> > slow. On my Linux box, the CPU for the VirtualBox was single core, so
>> > the XP installation was for a single CPU, I switched to quadcore in the
>> > Virtualbox-settings and made the XP using the multicore but still it is
>> > very slow. GuestAdditions are installed
>>
>> What is slow? The CPU? The video? The disk usage? Network? USB?
>> Please be more specific.
>>
>> Make sure you go into BIOS and enable all the virtualization
>> technologies. If it's a HP notebook ... Good luck, I hope those options
>> are available to you.
>>
>> Whatever number of CPU's you have in your system, assign less, but more
>> than 1, to your guest. If you have 4 cores, I say give 2 to the guest.
>>
>> How much memory in your system? How much assigned to the guest?
>>
>> You say you moved the client from one system to another. I think you
>> should reinstall guest additions, using the guest additions provided by the
>> new system. (Make sure you got the right version, and only the right
>> version.)
>>
>> In my experience, storage done through VDI is slow. You might want to
>> partition your hard disk, and wrap the partition in vmdk, to give
>> virtualbox direct access to the raw partition.
>>
>>
>>
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