OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Virtualization
Very poor performance of ArcaOS on VirtualBox 7 on Intel Mac
DavidR:
--- Quote from: Sigurd Fastenrath on February 02, 2025, 12:07:04 pm ---As I am very pleased with VMWare as well but could not get Sound working, regardless wich OS/2 Version and VMWare Version combination and wich emulated Sound driver or Hardware I would like to know if you have been able to get Sound support for OS/2 inside VMWare? Thanks!
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Aaah. Yes, there is no sound in VMWare. I hadn't noticed that. There are beeps when I use vim but no multimedia sound. Shame.
VirtualBox did have sound in VB6, but it is choppy now with VB7.
David McKenna:
Hi David,
I am running ArcaOS in a VirtualBox 7.1.6 VM on Win 11 and I notice a few differences in our settings. I set 'Enable Hardware Clock in UTC Time' ON, 'Enable PAE/NX' ON, and 'Enable Nested VT-X/AMD-V' ON. Also, my Paravirtualization Interface is set to 'Default'.
No idea if these will make any difference, but you could try them. Being a Mac host might change the requirements, I'm not familiar with Macs...
Regards,
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Paul Smedley on February 01, 2025, 09:56:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on February 01, 2025, 08:44:43 pm ---Configure the VM to run with 1 CPU core, if it does not run with one CPU core already.
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Sorry, but this is bad advice. Modern virtualbox allows ArcaOS to run just fine in SMP mode with multiple cores.
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On Linux that is true it seems. But this is a MacOS system. From what I understand Virtualbox has to use virtualsation layer offered by MacOS. And this layer with multiple CPU enabled kills system performance.
Roderick
Martin Iturbide:
Hello DavidR.
This may not be the best advice:
1) Check if you can also update the "VirtualBox Extension Pack 7.1.6" (at the right side of the page), I noticed that when I update VirtualBox and forget about that extensions, sometime I have strange behaviors.
2) If you have some time, why don't you create a new VM and install ArcaOS again just to see if the performance keeps being that bad during the install.
- Check the recommendations that you may follow here: https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/arcaos/installation-planning/virtual-machine-configuration/oracle-vm-virtualbox/
- Check that you are using the latest VirtualBox 7.1.6 for MacOS.
- After that, install also the "VirtualBox Extension Pack 7.1.6" just in case.
Regards
Sean Casey:
--- Quote from: Sigurd Fastenrath on February 02, 2025, 12:07:04 pm ---As I am very pleased with VMWare as well but could not get Sound working, regardless wich OS/2 Version and VMWare Version combination and wich emulated Sound driver or Hardware I would like to know if you have been able to get Sound support for OS/2 inside VMWare? Thanks!
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While I couldn't get VMware's SB16 emulation working, I pass through a USB sound adapter to AOS, which works well.
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