Clayton Dukes wrote: > I have to say I agree 1.5.6 worked flawlessly for me whereas 1.6x > crashes my host OS for no apparent reason. > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:58 PM, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On 06/06/2008 12:18 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> today Sun released VirtualBox 1.6.2, a maintenance release. See the >> ChangeLog >> >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog >> >> for a list of changes since VirtualBox 1.6.0. <http://1.6.0.> >> >> The binaries and the manual can be downloaded here: >> >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads >> > > IMO this is a huge regression with regards to startup speed, cpu > usage, video selection etc., compared to 1.5.6. <http://1.5.6.> > > I'll spend a few days comparing, but I have 2 nearly identical > systems (same CPU/MB, same video, memory - is less on the 1.5.6, same > guest setup (Win2KPro)), etc. I just 'upgraded' one to 1.6.2. > <http://1.6.2.> The systems are side-by-side so it's easy to compare. > The 1.6.2 takes _at least_ a full minute longer to start than the > 1.5.6, the screen options on the 1.5.6 for True Color 32 bit go from > 640x480 to 1400x1050, the 1.6.2 starts at 640x480 and only goes to > 1016x648 in 32 bit. In addition, 1.6.2 cranks up the cpu to over 90% > during startup - fans turn on, system bogs down, etc., etc. > > Again, nearly identical hardware (1.5.6 system only has 768MB RAM vs > 1GB on the 1.6.2 machine), identical software/OS, identical guest > data, and the only program running outside of VB on both when tested > was a terminal window running top.
Well...in fairness I haven't seen that. My vbox loads quick and runs like a rocket with Acid Pro 6 and Newsbin binary harvester in a WinXP virtual, with multiple torrent downloads going on outside teh virtual under control of Azureus. Which is what I got it for. Admittedly I have a very fast AMD64 dual CPU box with a huge amount of RAM and SATA drives (I gave the virtual 1.5gb for itself). But...I also have a fairly old laptop, a PIII 800mhz with 500mb of PC133 and an IDE drive that I suspect is powered by 2 mice on a treadmill. And it's not done so well with virtualization. In fact it's done quite poorly. :-( On that box I'm definitely going to regress back to 1.5.6 to run a couple of Windows things, or go duel boot if I want to futz around in Acid when I'm on the road. It took about 6 hours to do the install and get all my stuff onto the virtual. And that was after I installed Xubuntu on it for a lighter desktop. *bletch* -- Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man Systems Theory internet music project: <www.systemstheory.net> on MySpace: <www.myspace.com/systemstheory> on Last FM: <www.last.fm/music/Systems+Theory> get "Codetalkers" *free* at <www.mikedickson.org.uk/codetalkers> NP: nothing _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
