[ Comments below, in line ] On Saturday 07 March 2009 at 3:35 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native"
> FWIW, I have another installation of VBox with WinXP as a guest on > another machine, albeit the disk is a virtual one, not on a real > partition and it run beautifully. When the XP guest is idle and doing > nothing, there is barely a blip on my host's CPU. > > I just wish this other installation I have on the real disk partition > would behave as well. Maybe I will try two things... moving the whole > disk into a virtual disk on the same machine as it's in a partition and > see if that makes a difference and if not, then move the virtual disk to > the machine with my good installation and see if that makes a > difference. One thought I had is to copy the known good to the raw partition and see if that works for you. I was wondering if the raw-partition VM is hosed - note: making things up here! :) > ~sigh~ Just so much dicking around though. :) ... yeah ... so is it really a *sigh*? :) -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
