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Performance problems with 13.04 and virtualbox
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 (daily, full updated) and installed Windows 8 in virtualbox.
When Windows 8 is running a have huge performance issues on Ubuntu. Last week I had the same setup with ...
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How to run Ubuntu without GUI in Virtual Box?
I have a Windows XP laptop, in which I run VirtualBox with the latest Ubuntu, my hardware is little old, so running the latest version of Ubuntu inside Virtual box is kind of a hassle, very slow ...
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How to remove the graphical user interface?
Okay my question is that, I want to run a heavy application, on a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) with just 2 GB RAM (Windows 7 32Bit Host has 4 GB, 3.5 GB effective). Initially I thought of installing ...
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How do I improve the performance of my VirtualBox guest?
I run a guest ubuntu 12.04 on a host ubuntu 12.04, with VirtualBox, and the guest is much, much slower than the host (ALT+TAB takes 4-5 secs). I had a look around and I found contradicting opinions on ...
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Best Ubuntu version for Virtualbox host
What is the best version to use as a Virtualbox host OS? Is it 12.04, or 9.04? I get the notion that an older system runs faster. Is this true? I especially have to consider the amount of RAM ...
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Does VirtualBox permanently affect performance?
I would like to install VirtualBox as an Ubuntu testing environment. Must I permanently sacrifice system resources such as RAM? Or only when the environment is running?
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Make ubuntu gnome faster by reducing graphics quality
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on VirtualBox and performance is really bad. It takes seconds to respond to a click. Is it possible to reduce the graphics rendering quality or other unnecessary things, to ...
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What is IOMMU and will it improve my VM performance?
My Motherboard's chipset supports this feature IOMMU, i've read (but not really understand) that it improves the VM performance by letting the VM make use of the actual physical hardware instead of ...
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Getting a new hard drive - Running Linux/Windows in a Virtual Machine
I don't want this to turn into an argument about linux/windows. Please try to answer this objectively
I'm getting a new hard drive today and my current setup (on this machine) is running Windows with ...
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Will a Virtual Box Installation have low Disk performance
I understand that if you install Ubuntu on Windows using Wubi, there are disk performance issues since the entire system is mostly concentrated on a single file.
What about the case of a Virtual Box, ...
