Speed up virtual machines

[sagiksp]

Hi. I's like to know if there's any option to speed up vm client in virtualbox? by x2, x10, x500, Things like that
Please help

[loukingjr]

Only by speeding up the host by x2, x10, x500, etc.

[mpack]

I'm curious about what mechanism you thought might exist which could do this? VMs are already running natively on the host CPU.

What you can do is the same thing you can do on any PC: analyse what's taking up CPU and I/O time now, and eliminate the tasks you don't need. The VM won't go any faster, but the apps you run inside it might. A backup of your VM would be a good idea before you do this.

[loukingjr]

I thought a bit more about what the OP asked. Maybe he just thinks his VMs are slow? Otherwise new hardware might work.

[mpack]

I assume he thought there was a speed limiter hidden away somewhere. There isn't.

@sagiksp: You don't mention the host OS, or the guest OS. New Windows installations have a habit of spending a lot of time indexing the drives and downloading updates. They do this on physical hardware too. This can give the impression that the PCs are slow: they aren't. It's the new Windows install which is slow. Also, if someone else created the VM then it may not be optimized for your usage.

[Perryg]

There are a few things that can be done that are not default, but to find out if it is possible you would need to post the guests log file ( as an attachment ) for anyone to tell.

[sagiksp]

No guest log because i'm not talking about a specific VM... Just wondering if there's an option to speed up the VM Client and the apps on it.
Windows xp sp3 x68 extracted from a Intel - Lenovo stationary computer.

[Perryg]

Sorry but without the guests log file telling us the host/guest information I can not advise on what can be done or not.

[Martin]

Virtualbox simulates the "box" of a virtual PC, the code is running directly on the CPU.
As there is no way to let the CPU run many times faster there is no way to "speed up" the virtual machine.

[sagiksp]

Virtualbox simulates the "box" of a virtual PC, the code is running directly on the CPU.
As there is no way to let the CPU run many times faster there is no way to "speed up" the virtual machine.

Oh. Ok...