Lion & VB Login painfully slow

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patski
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Lion & VB Login painfully slow

Post by patski »

I just upgraded to Lion and VB is working fine - latest version and updated guest additions. However it takes an eternity after the login screen to show the desktop. I have two machines - XP and Win 7. The XP is worst but the Win 7 is slow too. Once the desktop is shown then everything seems fine. I tried updating the Controller on the XP machine to use SATA to see if that made a difference but not really.

Anyone else noticed this post Lion?
Sasquatch
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Re: Lion & VB Login painfully slow

Post by Sasquatch »

VB version? There have been some fixes for Lion Host, so make sure you run the latest.
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sirchuck
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Re: Lion & VB Login painfully slow

Post by sirchuck »

I'm running 4.1.2 r73507

It's the latest released update and logging in to an ubuntu 11.04 guest account from my
24" 2.8gh core 2 duo silver model imac is terribly slow when running Lion.

They say Lions RawR but mine is more of a mewwwwww.
josh_
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Re: Lion & VB Login painfully slow

Post by josh_ »

Hi,

I was having the same problem, my machine would come to almost a halt in Lion. Somehow my machine configuration got screwed and was reporting less memory than it should. I was giving the Guest OS 1.5 GB out of 4 GB but my machine was only aware of 2 GB. I changed the memory asigned to just .5 GB and problem solved. The VM works in Lion just as well as it did on Snow Leopard.

Cheers!
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