On Saturday 01 August 2009 14:50, David Baron wrote: > Our loving opinions of Microsoft, Windows and good/bad old Win98 > aside, the problem is the dependence on guest-addition drivers for > performance in vbox. Win98 is simply not supported. You can try it > using Qemu which presents known, standard hardware emulation. I find > it deadly slow there too. Problem may be the 16-bit nature of this > old OS which prevents use of "full" virtualization in the kqemu > kernel module. I believe that much of this code is also used in vbox.
Hello, David -- I think that you have written very helpfully and entirely correctly. It is not quite "intuitive" that a bigger and better environment can actually compromise performance, but I think that you are right. I will observe that there WAS a brief time when a LOT of the installation was in progress and the speed was just about what I would have expected on my laptop in its heyday! But the problems returned. I have some very specific technical support "issues" which are being addressed by those best able to do so. I thought I might "look ahead" for some ways to enhance performance. I am not yet sure that emulation is the best approach, but I will CERTAINLY consider it as things develop. THANK YOU for your VERY helpful observations and suggestions!!! > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users -- 布鲁斯 麦克阿瑟 Bruce Mac Arthur 15875 Switzer Overland Park, KS 66221 913-897-4157 [email protected] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
