On 11/05/2011 06:47, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Nick Sabalausky"<a@a.a> wrote in message
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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.
When you choose what OS to install in virtualbox it gives you an option
of redhat , ubuntu etc. Try choosing redhat (aka centos), which *may*
fix this problem for you. Or Try "Linux 2.4" which is in the list too.
