Re: [VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-30 Thread Tom
On Friday, October 20, 2017 8:30:13 PM EDT Christoph Schmees wrote: > Am 20.10.2017 um 19:25 schrieb Tom: > > ... > > > > I've never seen a named geration for the CPU, even in Dell's technical > > description. It's described as I7-840QM, 1.86, 8MB, CLF, B1. > > that's first generation - GNU/Linux

Re: [VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-20 Thread Christoph Schmees
Am 20.10.2017 um 19:25 schrieb Tom: > ... > > I've never seen a named geration for the CPU, even in Dell's technical > description. It's described as I7-840QM, 1.86, 8MB, CLF, B1. > that's first generation - GNU/Linux /should/ be mature enough here. :-) Is the BIOS (UEFI) of the host machine u

Re: [VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-20 Thread Tom
On Thursday, October 19, 2017 10:42:21 PM EDT j...@dodin.org wrote: > Le 19/10/2017 à 22:16, Tom a écrit : > > Could my CPU be on the fritz? How can I test that? > > did you activate the VTx (or other virtual) in the bios? > The BIOS has 3 Virtualization settings. The first one just enables vir

Re: [VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-20 Thread Tom
On Thursday, October 19, 2017 11:18:50 PM EDT Christoph Schmees wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Am 19.10.2017 um 22:16 schrieb Tom: > > VBox performance on my Linux host is awful. I've read several > > troubleshooting FAQs, and they help identify the problem, but have no > > information about how to resolve

Re: [VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-19 Thread Christoph Schmees
Hi Tom, Am 19.10.2017 um 22:16 schrieb Tom: > VBox performance on my Linux host is awful. I've read several troubleshooting > FAQs, and they help identify the problem, but have no information about how > to > resolve it. > > When the problem happens, VBox is using 150% to 250% of the CPU. This

Re: [VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-19 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 19/10/2017 à 22:16, Tom a écrit : Could my CPU be on the fritz? How can I test that? did you activate the VTx (or other virtual) in the bios? jdd -- http://dodin.org -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

[VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-19 Thread Tom
VBox performance on my Linux host is awful. I've read several troubleshooting FAQs, and they help identify the problem, but have no information about how to resolve it. When the problem happens, VBox is using 150% to 250% of the CPU. This is on a monster of a laptop: i7 with 8 cores, 26 Gig of