Hello, I am testing openSUSE 12.2 KDE in a VM in Virtualbox on my host distribution PCLinuxOS. The VM specs for openSUSE: RAM 3584 MB, video maxed out at 128MB, virtual hard disk 16GB. According to the specs on one of the openSUSE sites this is more than enough to run the distribution properly. openSUSE runs painfully slow in this setup. I find that very strange because I also set up a guest install of PCLinuOS as a VM with the same VM specs and I setup Debian in a VM with the same specs. Those two both run as fast as the host. I am not running all of them at the same time. I run one at a time. I have plenty of hardware resources to run one at a time and very efficiently. That is why I don't understand it being slow. I can run windows 2000 in the VM and then run AutoDesk CAD software which is a major resource hog in that VM and it runs fast. A computer running CAD software needs the same heavy resources that a hardcore gamer runs to play their 3D games. I have discovered that all three Linux distributions have very different behavior when first setup such as the guest additions. openSUSE guest additions just worked without any installing or configuring required. PCLinuxOS required manual install and some simple configuration and Debian required a lot of things to be installed before the guest additions could be installed and then some complicated configuration before the guest additions worked. Setting the time, time zone and configuring NTP is very slow and the settings for the hardware clock on/off UTC keeps changing back to on UTC between boots. Is there something I can do to get openSUSE to stop changing that setting? Can't run it with UTC on in a VM because the VM uses the host software clock as the hardware clock for the VM. Also running the package manager to install or just do the updates it wants to do is very slow. Is there anything I can do to solve this? Like I said the other two distributions running in VMs run fast. I don't get why this one doesn't. I am sure this distribution will perform much better installed on real hardware and not in a VM environment. I could very easily start using this one a long side my other ones. I have some ideas where this one could be a better fit than the others. I convert MS windows users to Linux and I don't always set up the same distribution for everyone. I use three flavors now and this would be number 4. Thanks for any help getting this figured out. Jack -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org