Re: Virtualbox performance issues

Paul Kaplan wrote:
On Monday 15 September 2008 02:27:59 Gilles Gravier wrote:
Hi!

I recommend using the non open source edition. There are features
that aren't present in the OSE (RDP, which might not be useful to
you, USB which is VERY useful for me, SATA...).

Then, I recommend using a more recent build like 1.6.6 (2.0.0 is
riddled with bugs, 2.0.2 does a better job, but give'm a bit of
time to clean it up a bit).

Nowadays, when you install VirtualBox, you have the latest,
matching version of the host extensions... And the best way to
install them is directly in the menu that appears in the guest OS
window menus.

Gilles

Keith Clark wrote:
I am running Virtualbox 1.5.6_OSE and am experiencing very poor
perfomance. I have 4 GB RAM installed and still my mouse is
very jerky and slow to respond and my desktop is limited to
800x600 resolution.

I have guest additions installed and it seems to really do
nothing that I noticed.

I'm looking for suggestions on what to try next. I've tried
asking the same question over at Virtualbox's sight and have
gotten no response at all, well except other users with the
same issues.

Thanks,

Keith
Most of my VB experience has been with using WinXP as a guest. The
biggest penalty to performance I've seen is when WinXP is set to
access shared folders as network locations rather than as mapped
drive lettters. If I attempted anything that required a network
call, WinXP would think for upwards of 30 sec making it almost
unusably slow.

This annoyance improved some thru 1.6, but after that, I gave up
networking in favor with mapped drives. Even with four mapped
drives, WinXP/VB is pretty snappy. Paul

Concur. The first time accessing a mapped network drive there's a
thinking wait, but from then on it's just like being there. BTW, I'm
successfully running 2.0.2 now on Hardy 8.04, after some problems with
writing to shared folders on 2.0.0.
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