[GRLUG] virtual box/cpu speed

[Topher]

> 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.

I don't know about this, I'm just here for the question below.  :)

> 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.

I'm running an AMD quad core, and I turned on a virtualization switch in 
my BIOS.  After that I was able to tell VB how many cores I wanted it to 
use.  I picked two because it seemed like a nice round number.  :)

Topher


> 
> 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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