On 2/27/08, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an XP partition on my hard drive which I've successfully managed > to boot with vbox 1.5.6 on Ubuntu Gutsy. > > There seem to be numerous problems though. The biggest is the > sluggishness and CPU hungryness of it. It constantly consumes 100% of > one of my 2.2GHz cores and the most menial of tasks take a long time to > process. The mouse cursor even gets "stuck" during what are pretty > smooth and responsive mouse movements, which appears to be simple lack > of CPU cycles to process the movement. > > Probably the biggest issue of sluggishness is the 10s of minutes it > takes to progress from the WindowsXP startup splash screen to being able > to log on. > > Secondly, I don't seem to get Mouse Integration. I have installed the > Guest Additions, and I can set higher video resolutions so I know the > VBox video driver is loaded (Device Manager tells me so as well). > Device Manager only sees a PS/2 mouse though. I'm not sure if it should > be using a VBox specific mouse driver or not. > > Any ideas on any of those issues? Surely you will want more info. Just > let me know what I can supply. > > > b. > > I have an xp guest running on a kubuntu host..... its not sluggish at all, and the guest additions installed just fine.
mouse integration just worked, and all in all it was a smooth experience. I can't say I understand networking yet, as you have to setup your own networking for vms (whereas with vmware that was setup automaticcally as well.) Out of curiosity, how much memory did you allocate to the vm? R
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