I recently installed the newest version of virtualbox along with Kali Linux 2018.3. Settings are done on the level that my host machine should be able to handle it.
However, the Kali Linux is extremely laggy even when I am only running terminal on Kali.
I have checked the other topics with their solution (3D on and off, re-check the settings and so on)
I have found a few problems in the log such as:
- AIOMgr host limits number of active IO request to 16
But I dont know how to fix this particularly.
See attachment for the vbox log file.
P.S. Installed guest edition, helping a bit only.
Kali Linux Guest VM runs extremely slow on MacOS host
Kali Linux Guest VM runs extremely slow on MacOS host
- Attachments
-
- Vbox_log.zip
- (28.04 KiB) Downloaded 20 times
-
- Site Moderator
- Posts: 27329
- Joined: 22. Oct 2010, 11:03
- Primary OS: Mac OS X other
- VBox Version: PUEL
- Guest OSses: Win(*>98), Linux*, OSX>10.5
- Location: Greece
Re: Kali Linux Guest VM runs extremely slow on MacOS host
I have a MBPr11,3 running 10.11.6. With the exception of the CPUs (I have 2 for the VM) comparing the two logs is like comparing two drops of water. And my Kali is working OK. Maybe if you give it a 2nd CPU and see how it goes?
Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.
Re: Kali Linux Guest VM runs extremely slow on MacOS host
I am using the Macbook pro 15 from 2017 with touchbar with 10.13.6. Already tried with 2 CPUs, but no performance increase. I think working with the vm is do-able, but running and writing python script in pycharm is very annoying since the letters are lagging.socratis wrote:I have a MBPr11,3 running 10.11.6. With the exception of the CPUs (I have 2 for the VM) comparing the two logs is like comparing two drops of water. And my Kali is working OK. Maybe if you give it a 2nd CPU and see how it goes?
-
- Site Moderator
- Posts: 27329
- Joined: 22. Oct 2010, 11:03
- Primary OS: Mac OS X other
- VBox Version: PUEL
- Guest OSses: Win(*>98), Linux*, OSX>10.5
- Location: Greece
Re: Kali Linux Guest VM runs extremely slow on MacOS host
So... Wait a minute... We went from "runs extremely slow" to "writing python script in pycharm is very annoying since the letters are lagging"?
That was the ... "extremely slow"?
That was the ... "extremely slow"?
Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.
Re: Kali Linux Guest VM runs extremely slow on MacOS host
Works only in terminal > Extremely slow
Works in pycharm > Not do-able.
Fine with that?
Still it does not make sense that a VM is this laggy, when i see other VMs on youtube working perfectly fine.
To give you a more detailed of "extremely slow": random lag spikes whenever changing tabs, moving just the terminal to the left or right is very laggy. Opening more programs on kali is pumping virtualbox CPU usage through the roof. Its just one example of pycharm not able to be even write a normal script
Works in pycharm > Not do-able.
Fine with that?
Still it does not make sense that a VM is this laggy, when i see other VMs on youtube working perfectly fine.
To give you a more detailed of "extremely slow": random lag spikes whenever changing tabs, moving just the terminal to the left or right is very laggy. Opening more programs on kali is pumping virtualbox CPU usage through the roof. Its just one example of pycharm not able to be even write a normal script
-
- Site Moderator
- Posts: 27329
- Joined: 22. Oct 2010, 11:03
- Primary OS: Mac OS X other
- VBox Version: PUEL
- Guest OSses: Win(*>98), Linux*, OSX>10.5
- Location: Greece
Re: Kali Linux Guest VM runs extremely slow on MacOS host
OK, let's try from the beginning. I have a Kali VM based on "kali-linux-light-2018.1-i386.iso". What do you have so that I can install another VM to try it out?
Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.