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Date:      Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:45:14 +0100
From:      Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slowness with Virtualbox
Message-ID:  <n18avp$8mo$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <56379D92.40501@wintek.com>
References:  <n0lpc3$9dh$1@ger.gmane.org> <56379D92.40501@wintek.com>

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On 02.11.2015 18.29, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> How many cores on your physical box?
>
> I have a 6 core Dell precision 7810. If hyperthreading is enabled (so
> FreeBSD apparently thinks I have 12 cores), and VMs running under
> VirtualBox are so slow as to be totally unusable. If I disable
> hyperthreading, VMs are still extremely slow but usable in case of
> emergency.
>

Yes, HT is enabled. I have six cores as well. Pretty sure we're facing 
the same issue. I've never tried with HT disabled, however.

-- 
chs




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