VirtualBox 3.0.8 preform poor with multicore support

Discussions about using Windows guests in VirtualBox.
Post Reply
carfield
Posts: 27
Joined: 20. Apr 2009, 19:47
Primary OS: Ubuntu 8.04
VBox Version: OSE Debian
Guest OSses: Vista

VirtualBox 3.0.8 preform poor with multicore support

Post by carfield »

I am using 64bit Linux host, in the past, if I allocate 2 CPUs to VirtualBox , it run faster than 1 CPU; However after I update, running 2 CPUs is very very slow....

How can I find out the root cause of it?
SSCBrian
Volunteer
Posts: 365
Joined: 13. Jun 2008, 15:04
Primary OS: MS Windows 7
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Windows 8 RTM (MSDN)

Re: VirtualBox 3.0.8 preform poor with multicore support

Post by SSCBrian »

Multi-CPU support in VBox 3 is still pretty shaky. A lot of times it will run faster with > 1 CPU and sometimes it performs much worse. I recommend only using 1 CPU at this time if consistent performance is important.
carfield
Posts: 27
Joined: 20. Apr 2009, 19:47
Primary OS: Ubuntu 8.04
VBox Version: OSE Debian
Guest OSses: Vista

Re: VirtualBox 3.0.8 preform poor with multicore support

Post by carfield »

SSCBrian wrote:Multi-CPU support in VBox 3 is still pretty shaky. A lot of times it will run faster with > 1 CPU and sometimes it performs much worse. I recommend only using 1 CPU at this time if consistent performance is important.
Understand, just try to know if anything I can do at my side, or anything information I can get and submit to virtualbox team.
Perryg
Site Moderator
Posts: 34369
Joined: 6. Sep 2008, 22:55
Primary OS: Linux other
VBox Version: OSE self-compiled
Guest OSses: *NIX

Re: VirtualBox 3.0.8 preform poor with multicore support

Post by Perryg »

@carfield,
What did you update too? I am running 9.04 x64 and it is rock solid. I tested over the weekend and upgraded to 9.10 (Karmic) and it was horrid. I wiped and reinstall 9.04 and all is well once again.
Post Reply