F19 alpha and VirtualBox

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf at omen.com
Thu Apr 18 04:39:29 UTC 2013


On 04/17/2013 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/18/13 11:15, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> On 04/17/2013 09:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> Try 4.2.10. I saw someone somewhere mention that 4.2.12 was crazy slow
>>> but 4.2.10 worked fine.
>> Same behavior with 4.2.10.
>>
>> I can boot into the console ("3" on kernel cmdline) and CD access stops and nothing uses any CPU. It seems X related, but I cannot open any programs to debug it.
> FWIW, I didn't do any debugging.  I did experience slowness but my goal was to install since my DVD download got corrupted (my fault).  Once installed and Guest Additions installed all works fine.
>
Just now I installed SCO OpenDesktop 5.07 and XP on VirtualBox 4.12 and 
Fedora 19 (freshly updated).

Both installs whizzed along, far faster than I recall seeing on real 
hardware.
BTW I have not been able to install the SCO under qemu or kvm.

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