VirtualBox and test releases

[Claude Jones]

On 2/23/2012 4:12 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
> Claude Jones<cjoneslists<at>  tehogeeservices.com>  writes:
>
>> I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had
>> problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but
>> tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the
>> guest additions about the 'experimental x' version. Every aspect of what
>> I do is slow; bootup takes many minutes, logging in takes over a couple
>> of minutes, opening windows or programs, everything. I'm running the
>> latest version of VirtualBox from Oracle on a Win7 machine with an i5
>> CPU and 4 GB of ram. I've allocated 2 GB to the Fedora VM. Does anyone
>> else have this problem?
> Yes, for me with VirtualBox 4.1.8, the F15 and F16 guests are reasonably fast,
> but the F17 and Rawhide guests are very slow. I get gnome shell using hardware
> passthrough on the F15 and F16 guests, but am unsure whether that's the case on
> the F17 and Rawhide guests, or if it's using software rendering. Presumably
> hardware passthrough would be faster.
>
> I also found that building the Guest Additions automatically using dkms as
> described in
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idp11277648
>
> works in F15 and F16 but not in F17 or Rawhide, so I have to do it manually
> there. If you get an error building the OpenGL extensions, you can work around
> that by issuing the command
>
> export MAKE='/usr/bin/gmake -i'
>
> before installing the Guest Additions.
Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I understand it. Are you saying that 
I should open a terminal and issue that 'export' command, then run the 
installation of guest additions again?

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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA