Re: Fedora 11 Alpha in VirtualBox

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 17:46 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:

> I've just been bit by the same bug, and yes, using the device name and
> then regenerating initrd lets Rawhide to boot as a VirtualBox guest.
> Unfortunately it (for some reason) is very slow, especially for any
> graphical operation. I'm reduced to only using it to verify that my
> packages work in Rawhide.
> 
> Also reported by someone else on the upstream forums:
> 
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=56614&sid=3e9e214ffa5fbde6754158f910393cc0

At a guess, is it using the vesa driver and might be sped up by using
the 'native' X.org driver for virtualbox instead?
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