Virtualbox performance issues

[NoOp]

On 09/14/2008 05:02 PM, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>> 
>> You might want to give the PEUL version a try: 
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>> 
>> Older versions are here: 
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds
>> 
>> Note: before you do, be sure to backup your ~/.VirtualBox folder 
>> just in case you need to restore.
>> 
>> There were considerable improvements since 1.5.6. I've found 2.0.2 
>> to work quite well. Others (Steven Davies-Morris) had problems with
>>  the 2.x versions and had to stick with 1.6.6 on his system; so I'd
>>  start with 1.6.6, see how well that works for you first.
> 
> Concur with that last observation. The OP might want to upgrade in two
> stages: go to 1.6.6 and make sure that everything is functioning
> properly there. If that's the case then move on to 2.0.2 with fingers
> crossed.
> 
> Bizarre happenings here...
> 
> I did a complete deinstall of VBox, including physically deleting the
> guest addons ISO, followed by a redownload of the 2.0.2 release, a
> fresh install, then finishing with a physical reboot of the computer
> seems to have fixed everything. I am now on 2.0.2 on my AMD64 box.
> It's definitely faster than the 1.6.6 release. So I can give it 2
> thumbs up and will report that fact on the thread I started at the
> Virtualbox and Newsbin forums.

Well... I'm going back to 1.6.6 today. I keep having issues with shut
down using 2.0.2. On one machine the guest black screens when shutting
down the guest & maxes out the cpu then never shuts down. On the other
machine it gives green vertical bars instead of a black screen, cpu's
and doesn't shut down. I end up having to kill the vbox process.

Sigh... looks like I'm going to be spending a few hours on the Vbox list
& bug system today.