On 2/27/08, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 09:48 -0600, Rance Hall wrote: > > > I have an xp guest running on a kubuntu host..... its not sluggish at > > all, and the guest additions installed just fine. > > > Hrm. Are you running from a real partition or from a virtual disk? If > the former, did you install WinXP using the host or did you install in a > vbox guest? > >
virtual disk, I never dual boot, windows works much better when presented with consistent hardware across reboots, I find that linux absorbs hardware changes very well just by loading different kernel modules, and then simulates the same old stuff day in and day out to the windows guest. improves the overall stability of the windows environment. > > mouse integration just worked, and all in all it was a smooth > > experience. > > > Wish mine was. :-/ > > > > 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.) > > > Yeah. Create a tun/tap and bridge it to your hosts interface. Not > terribly difficult. > its not difficult, and it worked, but it didnt work like I wanted it to work, so I figured it was time to go study some more. > > Out of curiosity, how much memory did you allocate to the vm? > > > 512MB and 32MB of video. I thought memory was a problem when I noticed > that the hard disk (the little icon on the bottom right of the vbox > guest window) seems to take quite a beating for just about everything so > I upped it to 512MB but with no improvement. Hard disk still takes > quite beating for every single action I execute in the guest. > thats about the same memory I allocated for mine. did you allocate a partition, or did you allocate a virtual disk? if you allocated a virtual disk, is it fixed size, or is it dynamically increasing? I dont use dynamic size virtual disks, too much disk i/o when it comes time for the windows guest to start swapping mem to hd. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
