New Mac? Slow vagrant? Here's why.

[kyle west]

Maybe this will save someone else the multi-hour troubleshooting
session I went through.

If you have one of the new Macs (2011), are trying to use vagrant, and
it is unusably slow: this issue is with VirtualBox and not vagrant.
VirtualBox does not work well with the new processors and/or 64-bit
kernel. There is a lot more detail in the ticket linked below.

You can read more here: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8474

As a workaround you can boot into a 32-bit kernel: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3773

Kyle

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

For googlers who get here somehow:

VirtualBox 4.0.8 was released today and fixes this issue.

Best,

Mitchell

[Marco De Bortoli]

Thanks for the update Mitchell, apparently the internal updater still thinks the 4.0.6 is the most up to date version. 

Manual download... meh.