[TriLUG] VirtualBox Problems

Daniel Sterling sterling.daniel at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 21:15:46 EST 2014


I've never been a big fan of virtual box -- I've found it buggy and
slow. So, I'd recommend trying KVM or VMware Workstation. The latter
costs some money, but there is a free version, VMware Player, that has
nearly all the same functionality but with a stripped down interface.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com> wrote:
> I am running Debian 7, 64 bit on a Thnkpad T61 with 3.8 GB RAM.
> I installed WinXP in VirtualBox. It was running fine but lately it starts up fine, gets to the Windows desktop and that's as far as I can go. Applications won't start.  Then I'll come back the next day, restart my laptop and VirtualBox works okay. Have no idea what's different from day to day.
> Any thoughts?
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> Brian Grawburg
> Wilson
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