Virtualbox and Windows

[Littlefield, Tyler]

I ran arch on my quad core and 8-core system, giving it 512m and 1g of 
memory for both. It lagged quite a lot with both, but ran much more 
smoother on the vmware side.
On 9/4/2012 8:55 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:27:52PM -0600, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>> I'm not sure that vbox is all that amazing. It pretty much crashed
>> on the Mac, and on Windows it runs everything ok, but speakup lags
>> to hell. VMWare works much better with Speakup IMO.
> Under what conditions did you find speakup lags? I'm typing right now
> on a guest running under vbox using espeakup/speakup, and there is no
> lag. This is on a windows host, and the processor is a single core
> 32-bit Intel Pentium IV at 2.20GHz. I'll agree with you that speakup
> and orca lag when using VRDP to connect to the guest, but the vbox
> devs say this is the fault of the M$ rdp client, and based on my
> experience using rdesktop, I'd say they're probably right.
>
> Greg
>
>


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