Slowness with Virtualbox

[Christoph Moench-Tegeder]

## Christer Solskogen (christer.solskogen at gmail.com):

>  On my FreeBSD host it takes about 
> 10-15min. Network is slow, but disk seems to be OK.
> 
> If I put some load on the guest, the guest locks up and I loose network 
> connection to it, while the console (from VirtualBox GUI) is not 
> responding (but the GUI for VirtualBox is working properly)

At least for some kernel versions of a Linux guest, the situation
improved when I set the NIC-type to "virtio" (instead of whatever
emulated hardware the default was).

Regards,
Christoph

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