On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:37 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > It looks to me like Virtual Box has serious issues (bugs). This is > absurdly slow compared to my machines: macbook core 2 duo both as > physical install and vmware virtual machines (x86 and x86_64), and P4 > 2Ghz 1Gb rdram. Oh, for sure there's something fishy in there. The only reason why I did this test was that XP in VM was so fast (6x faster!) when compared to F8 on real hardware (with 8x more RAM) that I thought maybe somehow running in the VM may be an advantage... No matter how you cut it, we are at least 6x slower than XP to start. Last time I brought this up, there were people suggesting that it's just and impression, that XP is unusable for minutes after you login, etc. I wanted to test this, and it didn't seem so. In fact, I found that even though it was running in the VM, in XP I could click on the Firefox icon within a few seconds from login, and browser will start quickly, and be more responsive than the one started on F8 running on the real hardware. Heck, XP boots in the VM faster than I can start Firefox on the real hardware! (That happens after boot only of course, later on from a warm cache it takes only 4sec to start Firefox vs. 1sec in XP) -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
