Do you have the vbox network kernel drivers loaded and are you using the bridged adapter? Those give great performance for me.
Rusty Nejdl On 2015-10-26 12:54, Christer Solskogen wrote: > Hi! > > I wrote this yesterday without any response so far: > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/poor-performance-with-virtualbox-ose.53722/ > [1] > > Short story. My "pretty" fast FreeBSD server (host) runs Virtualbox guests > (Linux/CentOS) very slowly. Much slower than I anticipated. I've had Linux on > that box before with Virtualbox without the same slowness. > Where should I begin to look? > > And by slow, I mean /slow/. I have a PXE boot system where I can boot and > install via kickstart a CentOS system in just about 4 min on a Windows > machine with VirtualBox. On my FreeBSD host it takes about 10-15min. Network > is slow, but disk seems to be OK. > > If I put some load on the guest, the guest locks up and I loose network > connection to it, while the console (from VirtualBox GUI) is not responding > (but the GUI for VirtualBox is working properly) > > Help, please! > > FreeBSD friend 10.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p4 #0 r288404: Thu Oct 22 > 22:58:13 CEST 2015 root@friend:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRIEND amd64 > > virtualbox-ose-4.3.32 (I have also tried the unofficial 5.x port, but with > the same result) Links: ------ [1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/poor-performance-with-virtualbox-ose.53722/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
