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VirtualBox – make Windows XP guest more than 50% faster with these tips
I’m using Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (Karmic Koala) with Virtualbox 3.1.4 and I’ve noticed a huge slow down in how my Windows XP guest system run.
Slow Windows XP guest under Linux Host
I remember being able to obtain a “close to real” performance using two cores and an old version of Virtualbox on my Ubuntu host (it was like a year and a half ago so I’m not sure about the version numbers). Anyway this situation quickly changed: newer versions came out and my new virtual machines became way too slow. Blame it on the kernel, blame it on newer virtualbox, whatever! It just wasn’t flying anymore.