re: #56 b_sharp

Did you turn on virtualization in your BIOS and in VBox?

I have several VMs using VirtualBox on my laptop and even more on my desktop. The slowdown is virtually imperceptible in most cases. I run Server 2003 and Server 2008 in VMs.

The VMs in my new desktop are way faster than native Win 7 on my laptop.

My main desktop is FAR from bleeding edge, but both the motherboard and cpu explicitly tout virtualization shenanigans in their marketing propaganda. atively, I run fairly vanilla 64-bit Fedora 14 (used to be Arch, but tragically the AUR is turning to shit, and I prefer it to be non-shitty) and 64-bit Win7. On either platform, both VMware and Virtualbox are pretty much unusable. Waiting 3 or 4 seconds for a right-click context menu to appear is unacceptable.

HAVING SAID ALL THAT —

These complaints are in no way comparable to the day-to-day life of a Darfur war orphan. Now I’m off to hate myself a wee little bit more.