[Cialug] virtualbox linux guest

[Andrew Denner]

It would not surprise me if Virtual Box is a bottleneck. Does it help if
you give it more memory?

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 4:31 AM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> I have rhel 8 virtualbox guest running on windows 10 host.   Host is a dual
> monitor setup running one display at 2560 x 1440 one at 5120x 2160, with an
> NVIDIA 1060 3GB.  Windows performance is really good.
>
> VB video config for the guest is set at 128mb (the max) using the VMSVGA
> video display adapter.
>
> The display performance of  the linux guest was fine when at 2560 x 1440
> resolution, but when moving up 5120x 2160, atom is slow when scrolling text
> and moving between code tabs. Sometimes the atom page refreshes are slow.
>
> Using the Gnome x11 server for the desktop helps because Wayland is also
> slow.
>
> An update to the latest version of Atom helped, but I don't think atom is
> the real problem.
>
> I'm assuming that maybe the bottle neck here is the Virtualbox display
> driver?  Does anyone know of a solution that will help with performance
> other than running this ditching the VM and running on native hardware?
>
>
> :) Dave
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