Hello Gerhard, We have not put much effort into optimising VirtualBox's performance with legacy DOS/Win3-95-98 guests. We have put a lot of work into Windows NT/2000/XP guests, so you should find that they run much faster.
Regards, Michael Gerhard Wendebourg wrote: > Hello, > > while I'm looking for appropriate ways running windows-applications on > my debian-powered laptop (Pentium M, 1,7GHZ) I now installed VBox. I'm > running Etch with kernel 2.6.18-3, ACPI / centrino-speedstepping. > > For minimizing the overhead of the system I tried installing Windows 98. > The installation was working and so far successful. > > But the performance was very poor: the installation took more than two > hours, and if I click the Win98 Explorer it needs more than a minute to > open. I have set the cpu-clock to maximum to achieve these results. > I did it before with Qemu, what was running much faster. > > If the performance is significant better with other / newer windows-OS, > I might switch, though it will need much more disk-space. > The applications I like to use don't require more than Win98 for running. > > thanx for helping / GW _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
