On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote: > Even while slogging through my painful and ongoing update of perl and > friends, I managed to install Virtualbox-5.0.0 and its guest-additions. > (Apparently these two packages don't depend on perl at build-time.) > > I fired up my vbox gentoo guest machine and, of course, I tried to > install the 5.0.0 guest additions kernel modules. > > I got an error message about usb support in the guest kernel, so I > disabled guest usb support (temporarily) with the vbox gui, tried again > and the guest kernel modules installed with amazing speed. > > I'd like to know if anyone else is seeing spectacular speed performance > with vbox-5.0.0. > >
No noticeable performance improvement for me using hardware virtualization. The USB issue is because it no longer pulls the extension pack or additions packages as a dependency so you need to add them to your world file. It also fails to compile for me with doc or sdk flags. -- Fernando Rodriguez
