Can you select a SCSI disk instead of ATA?  I've found this makes a world of
difference on VMWare.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:14:51 GMT
> Artem Novikov <novikovag@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Good day!
> > I'm trying to install the system on VirtualBox, but the process is
> > very slow. Is this normal?
>
> When I tried it, installing Plan 9 in VBox was horribly slow;
> installing it directly on hardware was somewhat slow, but not nearly as
> bad as in VBox.
>
> This is clearly a VBox bug, as there were reports in the VBox forums
> and/or bug tracker that booting OpenSolaris was horribly slow as well.
>
>
> Robert Ransom
>