On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:00 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had > problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but > tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the > guest additions about the 'experimental x' version. Every aspect of what > I do is slow; bootup takes many minutes, logging in takes over a couple > of minutes, opening windows or programs, everything. I'm running the > latest version of VirtualBox from Oracle on a Win7 machine with an i5 > CPU and 4 GB of ram. I've allocated 2 GB to the Fedora VM. Does anyone > else have this problem? As ajax says, check if you're getting software rendering of GNOME Shell, which is likely to be slow: if so you can force fallback mode from a VT, much faster than trying to get through the control center, with this command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'gnome-fallback' run it as user - not root - then log out and back in again. Aside from that, though, there is a known bug with the kernel in Alpha which causes slowness on some systems, it's possible it affects VirtualBox 'machines' too. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795050 . The latest kernel build fixes that issue: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-2304/kernel-3.3.0-0.rc4.git1.4.fc17 so grab that and see if it helps. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
