Virtualbox performance issues

[Steven Davies-Morris]

NoOp wrote:
> 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.

Sorry to hear this! :-(

I'll run 2.0.2 for a few days, now that I have it working.  So far so 
good.
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