video sluggish - XP Guest / U~ 8.04 Host

[aguitarplayer]

I am running Netflix "Silverlight.2.0" movie viewer and it works but the video / audio is very sluggish (very marginally watchable)

I have a DEll 8300 (3Ghz w/ 1Gb memory)
with 512MB configured for the XP guest in virtualbox (1.5.6_ose)

I will play around with memory settings but was looking to see if I am expecting too much to have video work as well on virtualbox as it does native.
I dont know which side (Host or Guest) needs more resources here.

Any advice on how to manage this?
I hate to have to go back to Windows as primary OS here.

(I have Verizon FIOS and run Starlight very nicely on other servers not using virtualbox)

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# some Ubuntu Host info
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$ uname -a
Linux DellUbuntu 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

tim@DellUbuntu:~/bin$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1034828 kB
MemFree: 14476 kB

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# some XP guest info
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OS Type Windows XP
Base Memory 512 MB
Video Memory 8 MB
Boot Order Floppy, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk
ACPI Enabled
IO APIC Disabled
Hard Disks Primary Master XP.vdi [Normal, 10.00 GB]
CD/DVD-ROM Not mounted
Floppy Not mounted
Audio Adapter PulseAudio (oss & alsa did not provide sound in Windows)
Network Adapter 0 NAT
Serial Ports Disabled
Shared Folders None

[inobe]

8mb video ?


there is not enough vram, also consider the fact that virtual tools do not use 3d acceleration "Yet"

[aguitarplayer]

thanks, I did increase the video ram (as much as 200MB to the Guest from 256MB total )
not much diff but does seem to be a litle better so long as it is not full-screen.

[inobe]

version 2.1 uses experimental 3d acceleration via openGL !

if you want to test that out ?




soon of course' it will support direct 3d which is wonderful.