On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 06:11:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core > SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. > > Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest > performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests > see lots of "CPU Locked" errors.
Try booting the linux VBox with HZ=100. This should greatly improve your performance. > > Googling turns up lots of problems with VBox on SandyBridge: Mac's > running on 64 bit kernels have this problem - running on 32 bit > kernels helps. Turning off Intel's SpeedStep has been reported to > help. Turning off VT-X in the guest - if it's a 32-bit guest - > helps. The last one is the only one that actually helped me. > > I was wondering if anyone here had run into and solved similar > problems? Or if they were running a similar system, and didn't run > into that problem? Especially anyone running 9.0 instead of 8.X! > > > > Thanks, > <mike > > -- > Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/ > Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- - (2^(N-1)) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
