[CentOS] VirtualBox on CentOS 6.0?

Thu Nov 3 00:12:41 UTC 2011
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:33 PM, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>> 4.0.x was okay for me (Windows server guests) but 4.1.4 was a complete
>> disaster. The guest literally moved at SNAIL pace. Removed all cores
>> save one and then it moved at TURTLE pace. 4.1.x is do not touch even
>> with a ten foot pole. At least with Windows guests.
>
> This doesn't appear to be universally true.  We've run 4.1.4 with Windows 7
> 64bit on top of CentOS 6 and not seen any noticeable performance problems.
> The way you describe it makes me think it's not the sort of thing we could not
> notice if it was happening.  This was Windows 7 Enterprise as opposed to a
> server OS guest.
>

How many cores assigned? VT-X/AMD-V enabled? Hardware?