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I installed FreeBSD 7 a few days ago in a virtual machine in Virtual Box. The machine has a 10 gb harddrive and 512 mb of ram. I know this shouldn't be causing it because I have CentOS 5.1 running in an exact same configuration and it runs as almost as fast as the host OS(which is slackware 12.1). I installed KDE and it runs so slow its not even funny. I tried following this thread http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/arch...hp/t-5403.html but there is no noticable speed increase. Any reasons why it is so slow?
I installed FreeBSD 7 a few days ago in a virtual machine in Virtual Box.
I admit, my knowledge of virtualbox is limited, but as far as vmware goes, I know some stuff.
In vmware, one must install vmware tools, in order for the virtual machine to function better; doesn't virtualbox require the same ?
I know this shouldn't be causing it because I have CentOS 5.1 running in an exact same configuration and it runs as almost as fast as the host OS(which is slackware 12.1).
I'm not sure I agree with that conclusion. To really demonstrate that the problems aren't being caused somehow at the virtualization level, I'd remove it from the picture entirely (i.e. install on a standalone box).
I am also not familiar with virtualbox, but I can tell you I'm running both CentOS 5.1 and FreeBSD 7.0 instances (w/ FreeBSD 6.3 host) under qemu, without gui, and they perform comparably. (Yes, I know qemu is emulator and virtualbox is virtual machine...) Point is: I don't think FreeBSD is the problem. I'd check the virtualbox mail archives for known issues.
CentOS uses Gnome while you are trying to use KDE, you are comparing apples to oranges here.
You can install KDE in CentOS, you aren't forced to use Gnome
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I'm not sure I agree with that conclusion. To really demonstrate that the problems aren't being caused somehow at the virtualization level, I'd remove it from the picture entirely (i.e. install on a standalone box).
I am also not familiar with virtualbox, but I can tell you I'm running both CentOS 5.1 and FreeBSD 7.0 instances (w/ FreeBSD 6.3 host) under qemu, without gui, and they perform comparably. (Yes, I know qemu is emulator and virtualbox is virtual machine...) Point is: I don't think FreeBSD is the problem. I'd check the virtualbox mail archives for known issues.
I don't really have a free box at the moment to install FreeBSD on, but I'll check the mail archives. Another problem I have is that kde is being really unstable, for example, I tried launching the control center and it will crash the first couple of times I try to launch it, and it will eventually launch
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