[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#483991: VirtualBox: virtualbox very very very slow

[yellowprotoss at gmail.com]

Package: VirtualBox
Version: 1.6.0-30421_Debian_etch
Severity: normal

Hello, 
I was used to vmware, and decided to install virtualbox. Well it is tremendously slow, for starting even, and for 
displaying any windows. It is like the CPU is 200pct running in parallel. 
Well I do not know what can be wrong with virtualbox, but it is of total no use.

If you would like more information about the system, please do not hesitate. I would rather that it works virtualbox, but 
ok nope :(

Regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages VirtualBox depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.11etch1       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.1.1-21        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.12.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                0.8.6-1           library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt              3:3.3.7-4etch1    Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.11-8          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8c-4etch1     SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.1.1-21          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1.1.7-4           X cursor management library
ii  libxml2                2.6.27.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.19-1          XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.2-2         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc                 22.3-1            Utilities that use the proc filesy

Versions of packages VirtualBox recommends:
ii  acroread 8.1.2-0.1                       Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii  binutils 2.17-3                          The GNU assembler, linker and bina
pn  bridge-u <none>                          (no description available)
ii  evince [ 0.4.0-5                         Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  gcc      4:4.1.1-15                      The GNU C compiler
ii  gv [pdf- 1:3.6.2-3                       PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  kpdf [pd 4:3.5.5-3etch2                  PDF viewer for KDE
ii  libasoun 1.0.13-2                        ALSA library
ii  libhal1  0.5.8.1-9                       Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpulse 0.9.5-5etch1                    PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl-t 2.0.8-3+b1                      ttf library for Simple DirectMedia
ii  linux-he 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18~snapshot.10143 Common header files for Linux 2.6.
ii  linux-he 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18~snapshot.10143 Header files for Linux 2.6.18 on P
ii  make     3.81-2                          The GNU version of the "make" util
pn  uml-util <none>                          (no description available)
ii  xpdf-rea 3.01-9.1+etch2                  Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  xpdf-uti 3.01-9.1+etch2                  Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

-- no debconf information