Odd X11 over SSH issue

[Paul Kraus]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Paul Kraus <paul at kraus-haus.org> wrote:
>>
>> I am seeing very poor response time running the VitrualBox GUI via X11
>> tunneled over SSH via the Internet. The issue _appears_ to be limited
>> to the VBox GUI as Firefox is reasonable. I am well aware of the
>> latency issues tunneling X11 over SSH across the Internet, but that is
>> what we are stuck with for the moment. The server is running FreeBSD 9
>> and is patched as of about 4 weeks ago.
>
> Start it with "--graphicssystem native"

    Tried it, did not make any noticeable difference, still over a
minute to open the window, but thanks for the suggestion. VBox is
version 4.1.22_OSE.

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