Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-20 Thread David Brown
Louis wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Regarding the last point about disabling virus scanners for Windows XP > guests, does this mean that XP guests running in virtualbox are immune > to virus attacks?? > XP guests are like any other windows installation - they are immune to "virus attacks" because vi

Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-19 Thread tchomby
Thanks for the tips. My host has 1.25GB RAM, so I assigned 384MB to the guest. Maybe I could assign a bit more? I turned the guest video memory back down to 8MB. I don't seem to have the option of using VT-x/AMD-V, it's greyed out, maybe my host processor doesn't support it (Intel Xeon 2.66GHz). I

Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-19 Thread tchomby
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try using a LINUX based screen capture application... something like > vnc2swf ... go to Synaptic in your ubuntu and type "capture" you'll > see several Linux based screen capture apps. > Unfortunately running the scre

Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM, tchomby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone give me any hints about improving the performance of my virtual > machine? > I'm running an Ubuntu 8.04 VM in VirtualBox 2.0.2 on Windows XP. I'm using > Camtasia Studio in Windows to screen-capture the virtual machine

Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-19 Thread Louis
> Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:22:28 +0200 > From: Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance? > To: vbox-users@virtualbox.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=

Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Friday 19 September 2008, tchomby wrote: > Can anyone give me any hints about improving the performance of my virtual > machine? > I'm running an Ubuntu 8.04 VM in VirtualBox 2.0.2 on Windows XP. I'm using > Camtasia Studio in Windows to screen-capture the virtual machine windows. > It works wel

[vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-18 Thread tchomby
Can anyone give me any hints about improving the performance of my virtual machine? I'm running an Ubuntu 8.04 VM in VirtualBox 2.0.2 on Windows XP. I'm using Camtasia Studio in Windows to screen-capture the virtual machine windows. It works well but the vm's performance isn't too great, applicatio