11.2 Open SUSE REALLY SLOW!!!!!

[zidane9000123]

i need to have a open suse 11.2 working version on my computer i have a hp pavillion 64 bit 8 gig of ram and i have 720 gig harddrive with plenty of space i have given the open suse up to 4-5 gigs or ram and its still slow either way its not getting any faster. This is my first time with linux and my experience is not good so far so can any one help me or direct me to something that can help me please thanks im new to this things so hopefully someone that knows nothing about comptuers can understand how to fix this thanks

[SSCBrian]

How much RAM did you give it at first? 1GB is enough for most basic uses of openSUSE. I've found that having too much RAM allocated can make VMs run slow.

[zidane9000123]

I have given it from 1 GB to 5 GB and my computer has 8 GB of ram so i dont know why its slow. Even when i increase the ram it does not do anything to linux it still runs slow either way

[SSCBrian]

Do you need to have 11.2, or can you get by with 11.1? I'm afraid I don't have any actual experience with the specific 11.2 version in VBox. I can't get it to complete installation. Therefore, I'm using 11.1, which works great. Nice and fast.

[frank]

Well, the question is what is slow. To rule out the obvious: Did you install the guest additions?