Node becomes super slow

[joei...@gmail.com]

I've been trying to get a Ubuntu server going on my Surface Pro 1 running Windows 8.1 for doing Node development. I've been using Vagrant, but the problem exists independent of that, so I think it's a VB thing. I don't have Hyper-V enabled.

I've tried Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, but they both do the same thing. As soon as I run any kind of node command `npm install` or `grunt serve` or anything like that, the CPU utilization on the guest shoots up to 100% (even though my host is usually between 30-60%) and just takes forever to do anything.

Any suggestions?

[Floby]

You could try and use less layers of virtualisation.