From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23494 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2011 00:01:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 23474 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Nov 2011 00:00:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.27.212) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:41 +0000 Received: from omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tBvX1h0030vp7WLAEC0Zyn; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:33 +0000 Received: from mail.daveroth.dyndns.org ([24.16.31.212]) by omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tBqL1h00Y4abx5U8RBqMi7; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:50:21 +0000 Received: from [10.249.1.104] (tela64.daveroth.dyndns.org [10.249.1.104]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.daveroth.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id pA500al4015042 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:00:37 -0700 Message-ID: <4EB47CA6.208@acm.org> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:01:00 -0000 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin very slow under virtual box (productivity hit) References: <4EB47513.2050105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EB47513.2050105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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/msg00079.txt.bz2 On 11/4/2011 4:28 PM, J.V. wrote: > 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. I use Cygwin in a (VMware Player) VM with XP all the time and it's not like you describe at all. I think the main Cygwin developers also use VMs (at least from time to time), so there's nothing intrinsic to running in a VM that causes the performance you describe. I can't say for sure what your problem is, but I'd start by checking your PATH for any directories on a remote machine (including any "host" directories provided by your VM software). Or, perhaps simply try $ PATH /bin /bin/ls and see if your problem goes away. If none of that works, follow the directions here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Is there a commercial version of cygwin or the likes that I can lay down > cash for to go fast under a VM environment? No. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org Every cloud engenders not a storm. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" -- 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