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Virtualization / Re: Very poor performance of ArcaOS on VirtualBox 7 on Intel Mac
« on: February 11, 2025, 05:57:16 pm »
Perhaps you can dig deep into the vbox manual for the version of vbox you want to run on mac.
Inside the release of the docs for your version, there is specifically Chp 04, and additionally other chapters and pointers to all the release notes, changes & limitations. Perhaps all of this will show something you'll recognize for why things changed under mac & vbox versions you ended up on.
Might even be worthwhile to read the VMware docs on the same subjects, to see why a VM might run better on VMware.
I still don't understand exactly what piece of perf dropped on your vbox setup ... is it specifically cpu, ram, disk, network? Vbox windowing (of the OS/2 guest)? Seamless mouse support between vbox and guest? If reading the docs didn't catch the new limitation for you, then more utility testing of each piece inside AOS might narrow things down to the culprit.
Generically, you say it is unusable or similar, but you might have to dig deeper to see what piece is giving you the most grief. With that identified, perhaps the vbox docs for 7.1.6 will show you why it changed, or will point you at a specific VM setting that helps, until they sort out something better with a future release.
For myself, I must have guest additions (GA tools) for OS/2, for many of my OS/2 efforts & projects, and that pretty much rules out VMware or other virt platforms, leaving only Virtualbox for me. Specifically, I must have the Host/VM shared folders functionality.
However, from all I'm reading and catching up on (what additional features are supported by installing GA tools, what features are native w/o the guest tools, etc.), if you really don't need the GA tools, perhaps you can switch to VMware. As Mac is Linux these days, perhaps other virt platforms can be used?
Hope this helps ...
Inside the release of the docs for your version, there is specifically Chp 04, and additionally other chapters and pointers to all the release notes, changes & limitations. Perhaps all of this will show something you'll recognize for why things changed under mac & vbox versions you ended up on.
Might even be worthwhile to read the VMware docs on the same subjects, to see why a VM might run better on VMware.
I still don't understand exactly what piece of perf dropped on your vbox setup ... is it specifically cpu, ram, disk, network? Vbox windowing (of the OS/2 guest)? Seamless mouse support between vbox and guest? If reading the docs didn't catch the new limitation for you, then more utility testing of each piece inside AOS might narrow things down to the culprit.
Generically, you say it is unusable or similar, but you might have to dig deeper to see what piece is giving you the most grief. With that identified, perhaps the vbox docs for 7.1.6 will show you why it changed, or will point you at a specific VM setting that helps, until they sort out something better with a future release.
For myself, I must have guest additions (GA tools) for OS/2, for many of my OS/2 efforts & projects, and that pretty much rules out VMware or other virt platforms, leaving only Virtualbox for me. Specifically, I must have the Host/VM shared folders functionality.
However, from all I'm reading and catching up on (what additional features are supported by installing GA tools, what features are native w/o the guest tools, etc.), if you really don't need the GA tools, perhaps you can switch to VMware. As Mac is Linux these days, perhaps other virt platforms can be used?
Hope this helps ...