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Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Improving virtualbox gfx performance?

Hi, I'm running Archlinux in Virtualbox at work, on a Windows XP host. I've installed the vbox xorg driver etc, and this is the performance I get:

GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu May 29 08:24:17 2008

GtkEntry - time:  0,17
GtkComboBox - time:  3,57
GtkComboBoxEntry - time:  2,78
GtkSpinButton - time:  0,51
GtkProgressBar - time:  0,22
GtkToggleButton - time:  0,61
GtkCheckButton - time:  0,44
GtkRadioButton - time:  0,64
GtkTextView - Add text - time:  1,35
GtkTextView - Scroll - time:  1,07
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time:  4,58
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time:  6,07
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time:  3,14
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time:  0,31
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Total time: 25,54

Is there any way to improve this? I guess the 2D performance isn't that bad after all, I just want to squeeze out all the performance of this virtual machine.

I'm using xfce with the default theme btw, can using another theme increase the performance?

Thanks,

Mathias