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Ubuntu 10.04 and VirtualBox – Does your console run slow?

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 - 8:31 pm - Linux

I’ve been running Ubuntu 8.04 for quite a while now, and thought it was about time I tried out a more recent LTS version of Ubuntu Server, so downloaded and installed 10.04 recently. First thing I found was that the screen console in VirtualBox was dog slow.

After a bit of digging I found out this was to do with running the 16 bit framebuffer driver, so all you need to do is blacklist it. The file you need to edit is here:-

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf

just add the followin onto the end of the file:

blacklist vga16fb

Reboot and you should be fine.