well, giving virtualbox direct access to a partition indeed is faster then
using a vdi file, but that not seems to be the problem. vdi files are more
than enough to most cases, so there is no reason to kill a fly with a cannon
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:29 PM, vbox-users <[email protected]>wrote:
> > From: Boris [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > being a fan of VirtualBox since long pre-Oracle, I downloaded the actual
> > version from two weeks ago (4.2.4r81684) and installed it on a brand-new
> > HP Notebook 4740s with Win7-64bit.
> >
> > Some days before, I prepared a virtual WinXP on my Debian-Notebook with
> > VirtualBox 3.x with some software that should run later on the HP.
> >
> > So I exported the VM an imported it on the HP.
> >
> > Now that I have the final installation I realized the VM is awesome
> > slow. On my Linux box, the CPU for the VirtualBox was single core, so
> > the XP installation was for a single CPU, I switched to quadcore in the
> > Virtualbox-settings and made the XP using the multicore but still it is
> > very slow. GuestAdditions are installed
>
> What is slow? The CPU? The video? The disk usage? Network? USB?
> Please be more specific.
>
> Make sure you go into BIOS and enable all the virtualization technologies.
> If it's a HP notebook ... Good luck, I hope those options are available to
> you.
>
> Whatever number of CPU's you have in your system, assign less, but more
> than 1, to your guest. If you have 4 cores, I say give 2 to the guest.
>
> How much memory in your system? How much assigned to the guest?
>
> You say you moved the client from one system to another. I think you
> should reinstall guest additions, using the guest additions provided by the
> new system. (Make sure you got the right version, and only the right
> version.)
>
> In my experience, storage done through VDI is slow. You might want to
> partition your hard disk, and wrap the partition in vmdk, to give
> virtualbox direct access to the raw partition.
>
>
>
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