On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:27:11 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > would have asked about that. My problem is sucky virtualbox
> > performance, on any guest that has VT-X emulation enabled (which means
> > all 64 bit guests).
> i would rather bet on linux addon kernel modules you have to install.
Are you talking about the guest additions? They're already installed
(on a VM that was running on an older Core 2 CPU). Performance sucks.
> In windows you have to install "guest additions" without this it is plain
> terrible.
I haven't managed to get through an install on a 64-bit windows system
yet to try that. However, that Linux doesn't
Linux, or for the 32-bit
> >> Windows runs great (as for windows of course) under VBox.
> > Not for me. *Every* 64-bit guest OS has sucky performance. Linux,
> Are you sure with two level pagetables featured in modern CPUs including
> sandy bridge?
Yes, I'm sure that every guest OS I've tried on a 64 bit guest
sucks. I'm busy recreating 32-bit versions of the 64-bit guests where
I can.
> > Are you only running 32-bit guests? Are you running on 9.x or 8.x?
> for production - yes (6 instances of windows XP). Virtualbox does never
> make main workload for me, it is just addon. On FreeBSD 8.3.
Could you tell me if they all have VT-X disabled?
> But i've tried Windows 7 64-bit and it worked fine. didn't see any
> problems with latency you describe
Could you send me the system settings (VT-X, PAE, etc.) you used for
this?
Thanks,
<mike
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