[Cialug] virtualbox linux guest

[Dave Hala]

I've got video ram maxed out.  I've allocated 8GB of system ram, top says
it's only using a little over 2gb and it's not using any swap at all.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:15 AM Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com> wrote:

> 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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