> From: Boris [mailto:[email protected]] > > being a fan of VirtualBox since long pre-Oracle, I downloaded the actual > version from two weeks ago (4.2.4r81684) and installed it on a brand-new > HP Notebook 4740s with Win7-64bit. > > Some days before, I prepared a virtual WinXP on my Debian-Notebook with > VirtualBox 3.x with some software that should run later on the HP. > > So I exported the VM an imported it on the HP. > > Now that I have the final installation I realized the VM is awesome > slow. On my Linux box, the CPU for the VirtualBox was single core, so > the XP installation was for a single CPU, I switched to quadcore in the > Virtualbox-settings and made the XP using the multicore but still it is > very slow. GuestAdditions are installed
What is slow? The CPU? The video? The disk usage? Network? USB? Please be more specific. Make sure you go into BIOS and enable all the virtualization technologies. If it's a HP notebook ... Good luck, I hope those options are available to you. Whatever number of CPU's you have in your system, assign less, but more than 1, to your guest. If you have 4 cores, I say give 2 to the guest. How much memory in your system? How much assigned to the guest? You say you moved the client from one system to another. I think you should reinstall guest additions, using the guest additions provided by the new system. (Make sure you got the right version, and only the right version.) In my experience, storage done through VDI is slow. You might want to partition your hard disk, and wrap the partition in vmdk, to give virtualbox direct access to the raw partition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
