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Perryg wrote: There you go. Everything is as it should be.

Ok good. Once again, thank you for all the help provided.

Alright, there you go, I was just asking since you said that my PC should handle it with ease, even tho it is still a bit jaggy.
I can't find the VERR_VMX_MSR_LOCKED_OR_DISABLED error in the log this time.

without VMX Wait, VMX? Virtual Machine eXtension, is this it? If yes, where can I get/enable that then? To my understanding what that basically does is allow the guest to use virtualization, right? Is it a host thing or a guest thing? I'm sorry, but this is something I'm not familiarized with AT ALL.

Here you go, attached. Ill look into the EPT deal since I'm not really familiarized with that. One thing is still bothering me, why could I run windows XP easily if I didn't do any of these things? Is XP simply less "heavy", or does VB provide other kinds of "synergies" with wind...

Perryg wrote:you have something else using VMX.

Hmm, maybe that was the cause. I restarted my pc and now it seems to work fine (still a little jaggy, but my PC isn't that best and this IS a VM we are talking about), definitely usable at least. Anyway, thanks for the help.

Ok, I updated my VB guest and intel virtualization was already turned on. No improvements... More info: I installed Windows XP in a VM before with 0 problems. I didn't even had to get the guest additions or make any VM tweakings and it worked fine, I don't think it was in a much older version of VB ...

I assume this is the file you're talking about.

I installed Mint 15 on a windows 7 machine and it wasn't a very nice experience, the CD took YEARS to boot (about 5 minutes), and when it did it ran very slow. Dragging windows around was a pain, and even the mouse was not very responsive. I already tried with the Cinnamon and KDE versions too (I ac...