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I posted the question over on their forum. I'll see what they have to say. If anything.

Since you have some version of openSUSE 11.4 installed. thought I would ask here. For some reason now openSUSE is completely locking up VB and my Mac if I try to enable Desktop effects. Have you run into this?

It depends if you are using KDE or Gnome. With Gnome no I don't but KDE and compositing in VirtualBox does not work well. Never has.

Perryg wrote:It depends if you are using KDE or Gnome. With Gnome no I don't but KDE and compositing in VirtualBox does not work well. Never has.

well I am using the Gnome version. I don't know what's wrong. It was working. I disabled desktop effects to see what the difference in speed and memory usage and now I can't re-enable it without everything locking up. strange.

Well what can I say. Personally I don't think openSUSE11.4 is anywhere near where it needs to be for a release. It may run fairly well on metal but the sluggishness and other problems I have encountered in a VM keeps me from recommending it in a virtual environment. With all of the additional overhead they have mandated it just seems like a regression as far as performance is concerned IMHO.

Perryg wrote:Well what can I say. Personally I don't think openSUSE11.4 is anywhere near where it needs to be for a release. It may run fairly well on metal but the sluggishness and other problems I have encountered in a VM keeps me from recommending it in a virtual environment. With all of the additional overhead they have mandated it just seems like a regression as far as performance is concerned IMHO.

I tend to agree. Plus one of their forum moderators PM'd me and said I should just use 11.3 and possibly update some things.

I tend to agree. Plus one of their forum moderators PM'd me and said I should just use 11.3 and possibly update some things.

hahaha Well that's one way to support the product I guess. Situation solved, just regress.