I ran arch on my quad core and 8-core system, giving it 512m and 1g of memory for both. It lagged quite a lot with both, but ran much more smoother on the vmware side. On 9/4/2012 8:55 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:27:52PM -0600, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: >> I'm not sure that vbox is all that amazing. It pretty much crashed >> on the Mac, and on Windows it runs everything ok, but speakup lags >> to hell. VMWare works much better with Speakup IMO. > Under what conditions did you find speakup lags? I'm typing right now > on a guest running under vbox using espeakup/speakup, and there is no > lag. This is on a windows host, and the processor is a single core > 32-bit Intel Pentium IV at 2.20GHz. I'll agree with you that speakup > and orca lag when using VRDP to connect to the guest, but the vbox > devs say this is the fault of the M$ rdp client, and based on my > experience using rdesktop, I'd say they're probably right. > > Greg > > -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine: http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
