On 21 February 2013 10:14, Imran Chaudhry <ichaudhry@???> wrote:
> It was loaded and was still slow. On resuming from saved state it was
> actually non-responsive, not sure why.
>
> I then installed Fedora 18 as a guest and with 3D acceleration
> working, guest additions installed, it was still a bit slow. That was
> using Gnome Shell/Gnome 3.
>
> I gave up on getting Debian Squeeze working with Compiz under
> VirtualBox. I tried lots of things (recompiled guest additions,
> upgraded xserver from squeeze-backports, adding a missing symlink that
> enabled the correct driver to be loaded etc).
>
> I got to the Monty Python-esque point of using Google Translate on a
> Russian forum that seemed to have the exact same situation as me. No
> luck. On an Arch Linux forum thread there is mention of a known bug
> with VirtualBox v4.2.6 and some users are running a patched xserver to
> overcome it but I kinda ran outta steam for this problem.
>
> It's forced me to look into Bluetile for tiling capabilities and that
> might be a good thing but I miss the bling of Compiz.
>
> I documented everything I tried so if anyone is interested I can pass
> my notes over.
>
> Thanks
>
I tried getting good video performance in a guest under kvm about 1
year ago, and it was way too slow.
I thought I would mention it, in case you thought it was worth a try too.
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