Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:11:41 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 8.3 Message-ID: <20120714061141.473cc8ee@bhuda.mired.org>
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I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. Googling turns up lots of problems with VBox on SandyBridge: Mac's running on 64 bit kernels have this problem - running on 32 bit kernels helps. Turning off Intel's SpeedStep has been reported to help. Turning off VT-X in the guest - if it's a 32-bit guest - helps. The last one is the only one that actually helped me. I was wondering if anyone here had run into and solved similar problems? Or if they were running a similar system, and didn't run into that problem? Especially anyone running 9.0 instead of 8.X! Thanks, <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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