Slowness with Virtualbox

[Rusty Nejdl]

Do you have the vbox network kernel drivers loaded and are you using the
bridged adapter? Those give great performance for me. 

Rusty Nejdl 

On 2015-10-26 12:54, Christer Solskogen wrote: 

> Hi!
> 
> I wrote this yesterday without any response so far: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/poor-performance-with-virtualbox-ose.53722/ [1]
> 
> Short story. My "pretty" fast FreeBSD server (host) runs Virtualbox guests (Linux/CentOS) very slowly. Much slower than I anticipated. I've had Linux on that box before with Virtualbox without the same slowness.
> Where should I begin to look?
> 
> And by slow, I mean /slow/. I have a PXE boot system where I can boot and install via kickstart a CentOS system in just about 4 min on a Windows machine with VirtualBox. On my FreeBSD host it takes about 10-15min. Network is slow, but disk seems to be OK.
> 
> If I put some load on the guest, the guest locks up and I loose network connection to it, while the console (from VirtualBox GUI) is not responding (but the GUI for VirtualBox is working properly)
> 
> Help, please!
> 
> FreeBSD friend 10.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p4 #0 r288404: Thu Oct 22 22:58:13 CEST 2015 root at friend:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRIEND amd64
> 
> virtualbox-ose-4.3.32 (I have also tried the unofficial 5.x port, but with the same result)
 

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https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/poor-performance-with-virtualbox-ose.53722/