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On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 11:05:54AM +0100, David Sastre wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:08:25PM -0600, J.V. wrote:
>> Any other command I type is freakishly slow.  How do I get this to
>> run faster under a vm environment.
>> Even if I $vi a file it takes a while seriously cutting into the
>> productivity gains that cygwin on the host environment provides.
>
>Please follow the spteps mentioned here to submit a problem report:
>
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
>> When I open a cygwin bash shell, and type '$ls' it just sits there forever.
>
>Also, I take for granted you don't type a literal '$ls', and the '$'
>sign here represents the prompt.

FWIW, I run Cygwin on VirtualBox all of the time.  It is one of my main
testing environments.

cgf

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