Virtualbox performance issues

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> 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.

Following up. I experienced the failure to shut down the VM today
after lunch. The vBox screen went black and off to noddy land. When I
force killed it and restarted (to bring it up then down cleanly) the
video was all shot, giving me 4 colour mode on a very small screen. A
restart of my linux box fixed that, and several start and shutdowns
haven't changed anything. I imagine another 2.0.x patch release will
be along real soon. If not, then it's back to the stability of 1.6.6.
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