From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18594 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2011 23:28:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 18585 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Nov 2011 23:28:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-gy0-f171.google.com) (209.85.160.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:28:23 +0000 Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so3647136gyg.2 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.72.22 with SMTP id u22mr17240847yba.52.1320449302304; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.21.0.100] ([64.55.39.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm9172230anp.12.2011.11.04.16.28.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EB47513.2050105@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:28:00 -0000 From: "J.V." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cygwin very slow under virtual box (productivity hit) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 I have Windows XP Pro x32 in a VM with the latest version of cygwin installed. When I open a cygwin bash shell, and type '$ls' it just sits there forever. Any other command I type is freakishly slow. How do I get this to run faster under a vm environment. I am not sure why it is taking so long to do a simple ls or mkdir or any other command. Even if I $vi a file it takes a while seriously cutting into the productivity gains that cygwin on the host environment provides. Is there a commercial version of cygwin or the likes that I can lay down cash for to go fast under a VM environment? I need to get this going or dump it all together for something else, work has slowed to a halt. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple