Post 688785 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
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(DIR) Post #688707 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:29:49Z
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Yeah, Linux Mint is running *really* badly in VirtualBox on macOS. I had to disable nested paging and turn video memory up to 128 MB to even get a picture on the screen. I updated Linux Mint to the latest version using the Update Manager and now it just sits there at the boot screen forever. Everything is extremely sluggish as well. Meanwhile, Windows 10 runs flawlessly on the same VM, and the GUI is fairly snappy.
(DIR) Post #688715 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:30:49Z
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Adding more CPUs to the VM somehow made things WORSE. I think it has gotten as far as loading X now, but it's taking forever to get there. I don't understand what the hell is going on.
(DIR) Post #688719 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:32:33Z
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Okay, so enabling nested paging again after the updates worked, but why is everything laggy?
(DIR) Post #688725 by sina@pl.sina.moe
2018-10-22T08:32:30.924819Z
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@thorthenorseman This sounds extremely nightmarish. o:
(DIR) Post #688726 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:33:30Z
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@sina I managed to get it to actually get to the desktop again, but it's still terribly sluggish. I just wanted to have a copy of Linux Mint on my system in order to assist my roommate with his new Linux Mint install if needed.
(DIR) Post #688730 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:34:18Z
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@sina Ubuntu wouldn't even install on his computer because of some stupid issue with GRUB that Linux Mint didn't suffer from at all, despite being derived from Ubuntu...
(DIR) Post #688749 by benofbrown@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:36:45Z
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@thorthenorseman It's been a while since I used VirtualBox on a mac but a few years ago this improved performance considerably. Add this to the kernel arguments of the box and restart it:notsc divider=10I think you can do that on Mint by adding it to theGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable defined in /etc/default/grub and running update-grub2
(DIR) Post #688766 by sina@pl.sina.moe
2018-10-22T08:37:31.861780Z
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@thorthenorseman I have never run Mint in a VM but now I'm tempted, just to see what happens.
(DIR) Post #688767 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:38:00Z
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@sina I bet you'll have a completely flawless experience, lol
(DIR) Post #688769 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:38:32Z
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@sina "What are you talking about Thor? Yes, of course the rain cloud is following you."
(DIR) Post #688776 by sina@pl.sina.moe
2018-10-22T08:38:46.311114Z
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@thorthenorseman I'm actually hoping that this isn't the case, so that I can help figure out wtf is going on. xD
(DIR) Post #688777 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:39:24Z
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@sina Well, I did get one suggestion: https://octodon.social/@benofbrown/100938377166441443
(DIR) Post #688784 by sina@pl.sina.moe
2018-10-22T08:39:22.394635Z
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@thorthenorseman I did have Ubuntu be incredibly sluggish in a VM not too long ago.
(DIR) Post #688785 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:40:14Z
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@sina I know VMs are a bit sluggish by default, but when you have to wait until the launcher catches up to the fact that you have moved the mouse cursor to a new item...
(DIR) Post #688797 by sina@pl.sina.moe
2018-10-22T08:40:44.952251Z
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@thorthenorseman Yeah, that is plain unacceptable levels of slowness. It really shouldn't be so sluggish, even in a VM...
(DIR) Post #688798 by thorthenorseman@octodon.social
2018-10-22T08:42:12Z
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@sina I'm glad you want to help! You really don't need to.I'll be heading out for a job interview in 15 minutes, so I won't be around to try things for a few hours. I'll be online later today, though.