On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM, tchomby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone give me any hints about improving the performance of my virtual > machine? > I'm running an Ubuntu 8.04 VM in VirtualBox 2.0.2 on Windows XP. I'm using > Camtasia Studio in Windows to screen-capture the virtual machine windows. It > works well but the vm's performance isn't too great, applications and > windows take a long time to open. I tried increasing the base memory size > and video memory of the vm but it didn't seem to make any difference. > Thanks
I think you're doing things all reversed. You should capture the VM using a LINUX (host) based solution rather than a Windows (guest) based solution. Here's why: screen capture is a very CPU-intensive operation. By doing the capturing inside the guest (windows) with Camtasia instead of the host (Linux) you're placing all the burden inside the virtual machine, thus making applications slower to appear etc. Try using a LINUX based screen capture application... something like vnc2swf ... go to Synaptic in your ubuntu and type "capture" you'll see several Linux based screen capture apps. Just my $0.02 FC _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
