There's some decent advice in this thread, but I switched to a MacBook Pro from Linux a little over a year ago and my experience has been now that most desktop environments are terribŠ, I mean want 3d acceleration virtualizing a desktop you want to use heavily is just a bad experience. I set up a triple boot using rEFIt of OS X, Fedora and Win7 which worked pretty well. The decision I ended up making was to just use 1 desktop and all the xbox and vmware fusion vms I use are cli/ssh only. -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com On 3/11/13 8:16 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: >I'd second that - get something like gkrellm under mac that can show you >composite graph stats of cpu, memory, disk and see what is pegging when >you run. Something will generally hit a limit if it's lagging. Lack of >memory will cause it to dip to swap, and then just spills into your disk >io performance to kill vm's, and your host performance. > >I would presume apple doesn't use cheap/slow ssd's, but but might be >worth looking up the model to see what kind of performance it's rated >for. I noticed a big diff going from sata2 to sata3 with upwards of >500MB/s both read/write. > >Starting a job this week using a stupid windoze box again by corporate >mandate even with ssd has reminded me what lag is like - could just be >mac, or their driver layer @ the (bad) os as Lisa said. > >-mb > > >On 03/11/2013 08:00 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: >> Add memory - also, get some read/write statistics on the SD card. I >> have noticed great lags in SD - not sure if this is due to driver(s) >> youth or ? >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Josh Coffman > > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I want to move all my non-windows dev to an ubuntu (or >> suggestion) virtual box vm. I'm noticing a sluggish UI both on >> ubuntu and Mint with cinnamon when running on my macbook. It's a >> retina with ssd and plenty of ram. I thought it might be unity until >> I tried Mint. Anyone know trick to speed up a vbox on mac? >> >> Thanks, >> Josh >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> (503) 754-4452 Android >> (623) 239-3392 Skype >> (623) 688-3392 Google Voice >> ** >> it-clowns.com >> Chief Clown >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss