Amitmarkel / beamoff forked from JasF/beamoff. Watch 2 Star 1 Fork 75 Simple Utility for disabling Beam sync on Mac (compiled) 1 star 75 forks Star Watch. Catalina also has quite a few security changes that could result in some older apps not performing well with your new system. If you’re seeing apps that take a long time to launch, that crash, or simply seem to be missing in action, you will likely need to update the apps to a current macOS Catalina-ready version.
Just a +1 for massive problems with running various Linux guests (the last distros I tested were Parrot with KDE (extensively), and Manjaro with XFCE, just to change things up). Systems are really slow (even at the point where I have to type in the password for my encrypted partition during boot it lags; of course I tried an installation without encryption to rule that out - not in every combination though, so if there are more than one sources...), when I try to play a youtube video on firefox, the whole system becomes unresponsive, I usually can't even stop the video anymore.
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- Different amount of CPUs (not 1 though), memory, video memory - no noticable differences
- Scale factors, both, via the guest OS, and via vbox - I believe the latter has a small effect, but maybe that's imagination
- Graphics Controllers - for me this has the biggest effect, with VMSVGA being a bit faster, but I believe that the reason for this at least partly is connected to me not being able to use fullscreen (with guest additions installed - I even did a whole installation with VMSVGA to rule out any problems which might stem from switching the controller). For the Parrot installation VMSVGA also broke some fonts, or so in Parrot, where the menu texts of the OS were not shown anymore (this only happened for Parrot - more than once, although it still could be my fault, I didn't try to fix it, because it didn't really solve the slowishness, either).
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I'd be willing to play around a bit, if I have time, but I'm in no way an macOS expert. I read something about pointing devices programs, which could cause the problem in one of the links socratis posted - maybe I'll find something. If someone has more concrete suggestions... For me, moving the vbox window to another monitor didn't change anything about the performance. But in my case the external monitor is a highDPI-monitor, too.
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I'll add one logfile, just in case I'm having an obvious error in my configuration.