[Tfug] Performance issues with Virtualbox 3.x - options?

[Zack Williams]

> I'm running Ubuntu Karmic 64bit, 2gigs RAM, low-grade Intel dual core.
>  My guest OS is WinXP.  I just found out my CPU (Intel T2370) lacks VT
> hardware virt support so that's likely an issue.

Absolutely.

> Does anybody have a good guess as to which virtualization system might
> be faster than Virtualbox?

You might try VMWare Server.

I'd suggest Xen, but it requires hardware virtualization support for
non-DomU native OS's.

> If I can get the money together, $100 could drop a hotter CPU in this
> thing that does have hardware virt support.

Long term that will serve you better.

The fact that Intel even sells a processor without those features is
pretty lame, IMHO.   It isn't all that new - Intel has put them in
since with the Pentium 4 6x2 series and Pentium D 9x0 series
processors years ago.

- Zack