Andre S. Veteran Posted June 1, 2008 Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2008 Out of curiosity tonight I installed Ubuntu as a virtual machine using Virtual Box. It runs fine, it's just not very responsive and very slow. I can't browse the web using Opera at an acceptable speed, for instance. Is this to be expected from running it from Virtual Box or is there anything I can do about it? I allowed 512MB of memory to Virtual Box and 32 MB of video memory, a lot more than the recommended basic settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted June 1, 2008 Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2008 Such is the limitations of running a virtual machine, for the most part. It runs pretty speedy as a LiveCD, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted June 1, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2008 Such is the limitations of running a virtual machine, for the most part.It runs pretty speedy as a LiveCD, right? Well I've seen Fedora 8 run a lot better on a VM, on a slower computer too, so I was wondering. Didn't try it on LiveCD yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingroach Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 use vmware.. atleast on my computer ( core 2 duo e4300 + 2GB ram) it runs pretty fast.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlef Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I too use VirtualBox on my Ubuntu, running Vista, XP and Xubutu. Most of the time they all run as speedy as to be expected from a virtual machine. But every now and then I too experience slowdowns. I then just shut down the virtual system and start it up again. This always fixes it. Annoying yes, and do not know where or why this happens. Hope this solves your problem. atlef. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Ubuntu running in virtualbox on arch linux with Intel VT enabled runs almost as fast as a native OS for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted June 1, 2008 Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2008 I haven't really used Virtual Box, but I recently had Ubuntu on VMware, and it was speedy. I recommend trying out VMware. To be honest though, I think it unlikely that Virtual Box would make it slow - but I don't know what else could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted June 1, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2008 It does run ok on a LiveCD. Messed around trying to setup internet connection for 15 minutes and gave up. :p Maybe Virtual Box runs bad under Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I found Virtual Box to be slow as well :( VMWare works faster. Sad cause I really like Virtual Box. It has potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1759 Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I've only found Windows to virtualize well (XP runs fast with VB, under Kubutu 8.04 and AMD-V enabled) I have Ubuntu 7.10 running under VMWare on Vista, and it takes ages to load, but not too bad when it eventually does. Not nearly as fast as the real OS, but probably on par for a VM. At one time, I had XP 64-bit running as a VM in VMWare, and that was super fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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