Archives for: January 2011

Slow text consoles in Ubuntu 10.04-based VM in VirtualBox?

By Robin Smidsrød on Jan 28, 2011 | In Software | Send feedback »

The default text console on Ubuntu 10.04 uses a graphical mode that uses a planar memory layout. Apparently this graphics mode is extremely hard to virtualize efficiently. Setting another (graphical) text mode that is fast, even on virtualized machin… more »