[opensuse] VirtualBox & dos6.22 guest
My athlon FX 2800 cpu goes to 99% immediately when the dos guest boots. There are a ton of entries on their forum regarding high cpu usage with several other guest systems, but no informative resolution at this point. Is anyone here having luck with VB from the suse 10.3 dvd version (1.5.2)? Several people over there have back-graded to v 1.4 to wait out the problem. A program I use at work is rather unstable in dosemu, and was hoping this would be more efficient... Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:43 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
My athlon FX 2800 cpu goes to 99% immediately when the dos guest boots. There are a ton of entries on their forum regarding high cpu usage with several other guest systems, but no informative resolution at this point.
Is anyone here having luck with VB from the suse 10.3 dvd version (1.5.2)? Several people over there have back-graded to v 1.4 to wait out the problem.
A program I use at work is rather unstable in dosemu, and was hoping this would be more efficient...
Tom in NM
XP Pro seems to run just fine in vb, cpu load is holding at about 2.5% at idle, and responds to activity in a normal fashion. So this will probably get the job done nicely...I'll try it in my Thinkpad R40. FWIW, so far I like this vb much better than parallels...even tho I seldom need either one! Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Tom Patton wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:43 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
My athlon FX 2800 cpu goes to 99% immediately when the dos guest boots. There are a ton of entries on their forum regarding high cpu usage with several other guest systems, but no informative resolution at this point.
Is anyone here having luck with VB from the suse 10.3 dvd version (1.5.2)? Several people over there have back-graded to v 1.4 to wait out the problem.
A program I use at work is rather unstable in dosemu, and was hoping this would be more efficient...
Tom in NM
XP Pro seems to run just fine in vb, cpu load is holding at about 2.5% at idle, and responds to activity in a normal fashion. So this will probably get the job done nicely...I'll try it in my Thinkpad R40.
Afaik, older 16bit DOS based Operating Systems from this widely unknown company always maxed out the CPU at idle. I experienced the same with Win 9x both in real life and in vmware. Maybe DOS is suffering from the same desease? kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 07:49 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Tom Patton wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:43 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
Afaik, older 16bit DOS based Operating Systems from this widely unknown company always maxed out the CPU at idle. I experienced the same with Win 9x both in real life and in vmware.
Maybe DOS is suffering from the same desease?
kind regards Eberhard
I believe you are correct...and most the complaints on their forum were for win3.11 and win9x. XP seems very happy on my Thinkpad, I'll try the app today. Thanks, Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Did you try DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/) I found it to perform quite well. On 10/01/2008, Tom Patton <thpnalb@micro-net.com> wrote:
A program I use at work is rather unstable in dosemu, and was hoping this would be more efficient...
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:43:43 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
My athlon FX 2800 cpu goes to 99% immediately when the dos guest boots.
Known problem for ages :( DOS is agnostic of other possible CPU users and keeps the CPU busy by not emitting wait instructions to halt the CPU. It's up to the VM to handle that. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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