Can you select a SCSI disk instead of ATA? I've found this makes a world of difference on VMWare.
When I tried it, installing Plan 9 in VBox was horribly slow;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?
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