Having some performance issues

[Miravlix]

I've been testing out running a Linux WM on my old Windows 10 PC, at first I started out using VMWare and to my surprise it ran rather well, but VMWare offering seems rather barebone, so I tried out VirtualBox and it has all the bells and whistles like cut and paste between VM and host OS.

Except a 10 second boot of the several different freshly created and installed distros VM's is 30 seconds with VirtualBox. Take Fedora installer where I have to select English (Because for some reason Geo location detection set my language to Sweden???), but clicking on English and it take around seconds for it to get selected, then seconds to register the click of the "version" of English and the point being that in the VMWare version it has no delays.

This is making it rather painful.

Searching the net we find all the holy warriors talking trash to there own fellow virtualbox users because they mentioned vmware, virtualbox and performance together. Some of them is even highlighted names on this forum...

Well, if you want to flame me for wanting to run VirtualBox over VMWare, you are out of luck as I've been using linux since Linus lived next door to me in Sweden (Never quite forgave him for running off to the US, but since he most likely couldn't pick me out at a police lineup if I was the only one in the line, maybe my resentment is a bit unfair.), so I spend 10-20 years fighting with Microsoft zealots, so can we skip the flame war and figure out why my machine can't get the same performance from Linux run under VB as it do in VMWare?

Now I admit I last configured a VM something like 20 years ago, so I'm not entirely up to date on the latest news in the field, but as far as I can tell the configuration of the VMWare VM and the VirtualBox VM has all the same settings, same amount of memory, the VMWare images is actually on a really old HDD where I had to turn off SMART to get the computer to boot, where I put VirtualBox on the SSD.

Does distro's come with VMWare drivers, so the install run better under the ones I've tried so far?

I saw some thread about -"-spec-ctrl off" instead of the default on, while the hostility towards the reporter was weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird, it would be rather sad if now 4 years later we still have the same VirtualBox bug running around because people was so hostile they couldn't be bothered to get it fixed, but I don't think the machine has specctrl, though I haven't spend the hours on digging up any specs on it, when they have all crumbled to dust from age by now.

[scottgus1]

There's not much wrong with the logged VM, but a few tweaks might be in order.

No hardening problems, exit code = 0.

Guest Additions are far too out of date, and video RAM is a little low, for enabled 3D acceleration:

00:00:03.251035 3DEnabled <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:03.251041 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000004000000 (67 108 864, 64 MB)
00:00:03.015166 VirtualBox VM 6.1.34 r150636 win.amd64 (Mar 23 2022 00:36:21) release log
00:00:30.201109 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 6.0.0 r127566 '6.0.0'

More processors than necessary in a VM can slow down the VM, due to extra scheduling oversight required in the host OS:

00:00:03.250813 NumCPUs <integer> = 0x0000000000000004 (4)

I'd reduce processors to 2, unless and until you install 3rd-party parallel-processing software in the VM OS.
sections 2.3.1 and
Then upgrade Guest Additions (which requires prerequisites) See sections 2.3.1 and 4.2.2 in the Virtualbox manual.

After these changes, please post another log if improvements don't happen.