On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 19:50, David Baron<d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: > standard hardware emulation. I find it deadly slow there too. Problem may be > the 16-bit nature of this old OS which prevents use of "full" virtualization > in the kqemu kernel module. I believe that much of this code is also used in > vbox.
The main issue with Windows 98 (native 32 bits, as wikipedia says) is the poor ACPI support, including the idle cpu command, that can be the main reason for your slowness. Maybe the good old rain can be worth for a try =P http://www.benchtest.com/rain.html Good luck. -- Giovanni "scorp" Toraldo _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users