QuickBooks runs very slowly

Mine, was Server clean install

 

The systems I installed Virtualbox on are running Leopard 10.5.5, one a a 20" iMac, the other a MacBook Pro. Non have a server version of Leopard.

 

No, problem in this, I am just describing my expierence

 

Were you in anyway virtualizing the the Server instance that you installed virtualbox on? Did your system crash when you installed virtuabox, or when you ran virtualbox to install a xp image? I would like the details so that I can log a bug with virtualbox developers. Thanks.

 

No Virtualization software, Server was set as Workgroup, BIND and Apache services was set, and NAT,
I didn't install Windows (any version), any virtualization software I am testing usually with Suse, or Debian
Server crashed after I set NAT, after restart Mac just didn't boot.
May be it is due to debug version and I enabled kernel level debug,
Anyway I am doing new install on iMac to check again

 

I went to the Apple Developers page to get the kernel debug modules. (http://developer.apple.com/sdk/) It does not appear that they have a separate version for the server or non-server version of Leopard. This implies to me that the difference between server and non-server is the license key and extra shipped binaries. The kernel is the same for both bundles. After I backup my system, I'll see if I get a crash running virtualbox with debug kernel.

 

It is Leopard Server Developers edition, not kernel with debug options

 

Slow Quickbooks

It has been a while since I've put any effort towards this problem but I wanted to let you know that we finally found the problem which caused the crashes. 2 of the VMs had the same address, I guess I did not clone them correctly. Quickbooks is very stable now but still slow. Thanks you for all the help before, we are so much happier since Quickbooks doesn't up and quit on us all the time. Now I am just slightly bothered because a friend running Quickbooks on a PC was talking smack about our speed. It is very slow on start up and much slower on the laptops. I'd appreciate any hints.

Thanks,
Jeanette

 

If you remind configuration for VM, it will probably give some clues

 

I have parallels on 2 macbooks, one running tiger one leopard, one is 2.16 gh processor and one is 2.4. 2 iMacs one leopard one tiger, one 2.4ghz and one 2.16. The iMac with 2.4 ghz is hosting the file. The computers are all tied together with ethernet and we have dsl.

 

Do you mean 2 computers can connect each other only through DSL modem?
If yes put switch, it will speed up

 

Actually, 2 computers connect to a switch and then to the DSL modem/router and the host computer connects to the DSL modem/router. I don't think the issue is the network because the program runs slowly on the host computer.

 

ok, I guess, if you put both VMs in Bridged Ethernet, and establish connection directly to another Windows VM (using network drive mounting) it will work faster