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My MacBook Pro is generally a fast machine (3.06 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 8GB of RAM, 7200RPM hard drive) but VirtualBox 3.2.6 running Ubuntu 10.04 is just too slow compared to VMWare. What can I fiddle with to improve this? Within Ubuntu, I use Eclipse mostly but even booting and GNOME desktop accessories are slow...
Why not run Eclipse on OS X itself? – Chealion – 2010-08-07T00:10:24.380
1Chealion, for a number of reasons including: different key mappings, no desire to install all required software off of MacPorts (e.g. Fuse to use sshfs and file:/// based SVN, some Java libraries with native invocations, etc.) keeping productivity/development systems separate, etc.. – Maroloccio – 2010-08-07T00:14:45.950
I've noticed on my Linux Mint desktops that if you create a 64bit VM and run a 32bit Linux (Mint or Debian in my case) in it that it will be terribly slow. Like take 3 hours to install just a base system in Debian (no X, no desktop, just basic system utilities). – ivanivan – 2017-10-06T23:41:14.830
One can also diminish the screen resolution of the Macbook(System Preference/Display/Scaled), it seems to have an effect on the rendering time and the CPU load. – user778135 – 2017-10-06T21:56:12.807
http://blog.jdpfu.com/2012/09/14/solution-for-slow-ubuntu-in-virtualbox – ecbrodie – 2013-02-02T01:09:45.667