[andai]

I've spent the last few days messing with Linux in both VirtualBox and VMWare and I found that disabling 3D acceleration leads to ~2x faster boot, and disabling desktop compositing (in the Linux guest) leads to 5x less lag when moving things around on screen.

I was surprised, because I thought using 3D acceleration and compositing would be faster.

Also, I run the VM at half res and used DPI workaround (.manifest file) to let Windows scale the VM instead of VirtualBox (VirtualBox scaling is very slow for some reason).

[Filligree]

Linux in a VM doesn’t behave like Linux on bare hardware, and graphics acceleration in particular is a house of cards. You can’t draw any real conclusions from this.