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Virtualization / Re: Very poor performance of ArcaOS on VirtualBox 7 on Intel Mac
« on: February 17, 2025, 12:34:47 am »
I posted about this issue a year or two ago.
Try setting your Window Scale Factor to 100% in VirtualBox and see if that makes it faster (yes, it'll be tiny and hard to read). If so, the workaround is telling macOS to that VirtualBox isn't HiDPI aware and to have the OS itself do the window scaling, I found instructions at:
https://digiajay.com/2022/03/05/macos-monterey-virtualbox-slow-performance-issue/
For some reason, VirtualBox's own scaling is horribly slow on macOS, I'm not sure why. I never noticed it with other guest OSs, but for some reason when running a OS/2, eCS, or ArcaOS VM, it's horrible evident.
Sadly to say, the best experience I got was using Parallels, but that's pricey.
Try setting your Window Scale Factor to 100% in VirtualBox and see if that makes it faster (yes, it'll be tiny and hard to read). If so, the workaround is telling macOS to that VirtualBox isn't HiDPI aware and to have the OS itself do the window scaling, I found instructions at:
https://digiajay.com/2022/03/05/macos-monterey-virtualbox-slow-performance-issue/
For some reason, VirtualBox's own scaling is horribly slow on macOS, I'm not sure why. I never noticed it with other guest OSs, but for some reason when running a OS/2, eCS, or ArcaOS VM, it's horrible evident.
Sadly to say, the best experience I got was using Parallels, but that's pricey.