[GRLUG] virtual box/cpu speed

[west mi]

Do you think there is a significant speed difference between the dual and
quad core cpu's?
I havent used anything but single and dual cores.
I switched several years back to dual core, and did notice a significant
speed up.

Do you think vbox can fully utilize a quad core?
I hesitate on going to a quad core, because I don't know if today's software
can
 fully utilize 4 cores.

thanks,
Darrin

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, west mi wrote:
>
>  Anyone have win7 working in vbox?
>> And does it work good?
>>
>
> I'll chime in.
>
> I have a 32bit win7 install on my 32bit Arch linux laptop.  The host has 2G
> of ram and I give one to the vm.  I use Photoshop in it and it works just
> fine.
>
> I copied that vm to my 64bit arch host and that went flawlessly.  Now that
> vm has 2G of its own, and 2 of my 4 processors.  Still using photoshop, but
> it screams right along.  It takes 5-7 seconds to go from power on to login,
> and maybe 12 seconds to reboot.
>
> I really like VirtualBox.
>
> topher
>
>
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