Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:45:57 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does vbox have support for cd-rom or usb in winxp guest? Message-ID: <20090925164557.52BA41CC0E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:31:26 %2B0200." <20090925183126.361f54aa@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:31:26 +0200 > From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> > > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:17:38 -0700 > "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > > > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:38:34 +0200 > > > From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:30:52 -0700 > > > "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Other than the USB, everything seems to work great for a Windows 7 > > > > guest. I just need a bit more memory so I don't spend so much time > > > > paging. > > > > > > > > > > This statement interests me because, as I've posted several times, I can't > > > even start W7RC with acceleration turned on (running a recent 9-CURRENT). > > > Everything worked with older versions of the kernel and port. > > > > > > What version of FreeBSD and of the port are you using? > > > > Yes, I have seen your reports and I don't see anything like it. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and have been using VB running Windows 7 > > Release (not RC) since 8.0-BETA1. > > > > This sort of confirms my suspicion that something has changed in the > 9-CURRENT kernel to break VirtualBox. It worked just fine until I > installed a new kernel at the beginning of last week :( > > Hmm, you're running an Intel box? I run AMD64. Might also be a factor. Yes, it is a 4 year old 2 GHz Pentium-M, so AMD64 is not available. > > > networking and both work fine for me. No problems encountered at all > > other than that memory utilization tends to sit at 85% or more and > > paging and swapping on the Windows system makes it very slow and makes > > running more than one app at a time impractical. W7 simply can't run > > well with 512 MB of memory. > > > > I ordered memory for my ThinkPad yesterday, so I hope that I'll have > > double the memory next week. > > > > More memory definitely helps. I allocated 1GB to W7RC and it runs OK > with that. But then, I have 4GB in my box. Due to the Intel 915 chip, my system is restricted to 2 GB, but that will let me run a 1G guest. The VB is on a USB disk, too, which does not help performance, but lets me move the guest system from host to host which is proving very handy! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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