ubuntu vbox guest on mac

[Josh Coffman]

I'll be trying some of this soon as I can get  little caught up with some
work, but I thought it worth mentioning the SATA thing. I haven't checked
mine, but ive heard that Apple commonly puts SATA2 drives in even when they
have the SATA3 controller. I don't know if that's a cost or supply chain
thing, just that it happens.

I recall something about ubuntu vbox guests on osx mountain lion having
trouble with 3d acceleration. I'l try more RAM then look into that. My Win7
vbox runs fine so I think a linux one should be able to as well.


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I'd second that - get something like gkrellm under mac that can show you
> composite graph stats of cpu, memory, disk and see what is pegging when you
> run.  Something will generally hit a limit if it's lagging.  Lack of memory
> will cause it to dip to swap, and then just spills into your disk io
> performance to kill vm's, and your host performance.
>
> I would presume apple doesn't use cheap/slow ssd's, but but might be worth
> looking up the model to see what kind of performance it's rated for.  I
> noticed a big diff going from sata2 to sata3 with upwards of 500MB/s both
> read/write.
>
> Starting a job this week using a stupid windoze box again by corporate
> mandate even with ssd has reminded me what lag is like - could just be mac,
> or their driver layer @ the (bad) os as Lisa said.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 03/11/2013 08:00 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
>> Add memory - also, get some read/write statistics on the SD card.  I
>> have noticed great lags in SD - not sure if this is due to driver(s)
>> youth or ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com
>> <mailto:joshcoffman at gmail.com>**> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>        I want to move all my non-windows dev to an ubuntu (or
>>     suggestion) virtual box vm. I'm noticing a sluggish UI both on
>>     ubuntu and Mint with cinnamon when running on my macbook. It's a
>>     retina with ssd and plenty of ram. I thought it might be unity until
>>     I tried Mint. Anyone know trick to speed up a vbox on mac?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Josh
>>
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