<p dir="ltr">I used Virtualbox with a Windows 7 VM on an Ubuntu host for about a year, and the Windows always dragged. Then I swapped them and the performance improved greatly. I'm not sure what was happening, but I got the best performance out of the Windows guest by assigning it only one CPU. <br>
There have been updates to Virtualbox since then, do it may be better now. </p>
<p dir="ltr">...John</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 2, 2013 3:07 PM, "Brandon Wood" <<a href="mailto:woody@2143.net">woody@2143.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">None yet. I've used Virtual Box box for a long while now; just the other way around; Windows host, Linux VM. <br><br>I mainly just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on any other options that others may consider to be better.<br>
<br>Never hurts to ask.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@bronosky.com" target="_blank">richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Virtual Box is pretty adequate for what you are trying to do. What shortcomings have you encountered?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Brandon Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woody@2143.net" target="_blank">woody@2143.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>All,<br></div> Looking to run Linux (Fedora 18) on the laptop and move an existing windows install (yes, yes, I suck, it sucks, I know, lets move on) in to a virtual machine.<br>
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</div>Currently doing so using VirtualBox but I was wondering if anyone suggests other VM software to use instead. <br><br></div>Thanks for the input.<br></div></div></div>
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