On Nov 12, 2007 10:21 PM, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am delighted with the performance of Windows 2000 and XP within VirtualBox > (hosted on a Pentium 1.8 with 1.5 GB of storage, running Gutsy Gibbon). It > seems close to native performance - excellent. > > But two Linux flavors (Fedora 7 and Mandrive 8) are unusably slow - especially > Mandriva. > > Any good explanation or suggestions to fix the problem, please? >
VirtualBox dislikes tickless kernels. Use "nohz=off" in your bootloader. With a properly configured Linux kernel, it's possible to get top-notch performance (no tickless, HZ=100). -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
