Windows 10 (build 10061)

[loukingjr]

Updated my Windows 10 guest and it went well.* Nothing really new except I had to reinstall the GAs to get shared folders to work.again. OSX 10.10.4



*well if you consider taking 2-3 hrs to download the update and install on a 75Mbps connection.

[Zrax0111]

*well if you consider taking 2-3 hrs to download the update and install on a 75Mbps connection.

I'm noticing this as well (Win8.1 host)... Based on the guest's task manager and the VBox device icons, it appears to be disk I/O performance, not network, that's causing it to update so slowly. But I also haven't tried it on real hardware to compare...

[loukingjr]

I don't think it's disk I/O performance. I think it's just Microsoft's servers. Windows users have been complaining about update speeds for years. Plus everything else is magnitudes faster.

[Zrax0111]

Some of it may indeed be network, and I don't disagree that Microsoft's update servers are notoriously slow... However, I also watched my disk activity in the Task Manager basically flatline 100% during the majority of the pre-reboot/post-download install process ... But like I say, I haven't compared it to a real machine, so it's entirely possible it does that all the time, and that the latest Windows 10 update is just plain slow for everyone, virtual or otherwise.

EDIT: I guess that point isn't very interesting, since it would be natural for it to be writing lots of data right after it downloaded it. I'd still be (slightly) interested to hear how fast an update is on real hardware or on older VBox versions though.

[Technologov]

loukingjr: What is your question ?

Windows 10 is untested, and unreleased so things can change and break between build versions.

[loukingjr]

I don't have a question Alex.