My host is 64-bit Windows 7 and my guest is Windows XP Professional (uncertain if 32 or 64-bit). I had already done an install like this on a laptop running 64-bit Windows 10 before on an older version of Virtualbox and it ran smoothly. Obviously, I'm using a different machine now and I'm using the newest version of Virtualbox as of writing this post.
I noticed that my guest is slow, REALLY slow. At present it's at the last part of the installation and for the past few minutes I've been stuck on a part of it as if the thing were running on 1 frame per minute (just an exaggeration though, but the Next button looks like it's in a stuck state and the only change on the screen is when I move the mouse around but it looks really choppy and parts of it disappear when I move it around).
EDIT (2018.05.05): The problem could be because of my PC. I tried using the version of Virtualbox I probably used at the time I had my previous install of Windows XP on a virtual machine.
Windows XP very slow
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Windows XP very slow
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Re: Windows XP very slow
Yep: old Windows version, new install. Slow. I don't see much need to have this conversation going on in two topics at once. See :-
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=87756
Particularly page 3 of the discussion. It's a pity you installed XP with only one core though. You have a 4 core host, so you could have given it two. People are not used to single core lag any more.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=87756
Particularly page 3 of the discussion. It's a pity you installed XP with only one core though. You have a 4 core host, so you could have given it two. People are not used to single core lag any more.
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Re: Windows XP very slow
Installing it on two cores didn't quite help. Still feels like the OS is just as slow as last time.mpack wrote:It's a pity you installed XP with only one core though. You have a 4 core host, so you could have given it two. People are not used to single core lag any more.
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Re: Windows XP very slow
Well, that would certainly be a problem if it was the only suggestion instead of a minor aside. Windows Update will be the main reason.
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Re: Windows XP very slow
I finally got the OS to install after letting it sit well around 5 hours. Good to know that the OS isn't as slow as the last part of the installation process where I had to wait for around 5 minutes for one segment of it to load. It's not a very fast booter though; when I select some tab on, say for example, Properties, the entire screen would refresh and you would mostly see black as well as other parts which are parts of the desktop.
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Re: Windows XP very slow
I assume you understand that you need to install the Guest Additions to get good graphics performance. Chapter 4 of user manual.
Also, I assume when you set the number of vCPUs to 2 you then reinstalled XP, as XP will not use cores that appear after it has been installed - at least not without some work.
Also, I assume when you set the number of vCPUs to 2 you then reinstalled XP, as XP will not use cores that appear after it has been installed - at least not without some work.