"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:iq9ujn$111t$1...@digitalmars.com... > > The only problem I'm having now (aside from the fact that I haven't > attempted to deal with the other shared host server yet - the debian one > from the horrible ipower company), is that CentOS 4.2 (or maybe it's just > KDE) runs so slow in a VM that it frequently doesn't recognize when I let > go of a key and so then it goes off doing crazy shit. :/ Or it'll swap my > key presses if I type too fast. At one point I had a hell of a time just > getting it to let me type in "cd dmd" correctly. (I don't think it's > entirely because of my computer though. XP runs just fine in a VM for me, > even with only 192MB RAM allocated to it instead of the 512MB given to > CentOS 4.2) So I'm going to try putting CentOS 4.9 in a VM and replacing > KDE with XFCE. And I'll also have VirtualBox enable 3D accel and see if > maybe then the "VirtualBox Guest Additions" package will be able to use > OpenGL. >
It turns out the problem is rooted in the fact that 2.6 kernel uses 1,000Hz for...umm...something or other...whereas the 2.4 kernel only used 100Hz. Seems that's caused a lot of big performance problems in VMs. Apperently this was sorted out in one of the CentOS 5.x point releases, but CentOS 4 needs to use a specially-built kernel. Which, of course, I don't have a f'ing clue how to do. I did find some pre-made "VM-ified CentOS" VMs here: http://people.centos.org/tru/vmware/ I got the "centos-4-20100321/CentOS-4_desktop.i386.zip" one, and it seems to work except that X doesn't run because it complains it can't find any screens (or something like that). Not a clue on how to fix that, but the text-mode commandline + VirtualBox's shared folder's should hopefully be enough for me to at least get by.