[TriLUG] VirtualBox Problems

[Ken MacKenzie]

He has a point on VMware.  But still the free -m output as well as top
output while virtualbox is running might yield some information on what is
going on.  Incidentally you might want to set your CPU governor to
performance while trying to do anything within virtualbox.  I personally
would not want to virtualize windows on a machine with less than 4gb RAM
and would dedicate 2gb of that RAM to windows in the virtualization.

Ken


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Daniel Sterling
<sterling.daniel at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've never been a big fan of virtual box -- I've found it buggy and
> slow. So, I'd recommend trying KVM or VMware Workstation. The latter
> costs some money, but there is a free version, VMware Player, that has
> nearly all the same functionality but with a stripped down interface.
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com> wrote:
> > I am running Debian 7, 64 bit on a Thnkpad T61 with 3.8 GB RAM.
> > I installed WinXP in VirtualBox. It was running fine but lately it
> starts up fine, gets to the Windows desktop and that's as far as I can go.
> Applications won't start.  Then I'll come back the next day, restart my
> laptop and VirtualBox works okay. Have no idea what's different from day to
> day.
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Brian Grawburg
> > Wilson
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