Mouse pointer constantly freezing

[drs@dcneuro.net]

Is it abnormal for the mouse pointer to behave complete differently in windows than in OS? Mine constantly freezes. I'm running on a new 27" iMac, with OS Mohave, current, Current Vbox, guests additions (presumably) installed.

[socratis]

You should know the drill by now... VBox.log. ZIPPED. From a complete session.

And BTW, what are you doing inside the guest? What's your guest doing? Did you check the TaskManager/ActivityMonitor/SystemMonitor for resource usage? Does it do it when the host/guest are idle?

[drs@dcneuro.net]

MyVM-2019-06-19-16-45-20.log.zip

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It does it constantly no matter anything else. I currently have 4 GB of RAM dedicated to the VM, 8 on the machine.

[socratis]

The log wasn't the only thing I asked for. Here, to repeat it and in a better, easier format:

• What are you doing inside the guest?
• What's your guest doing? Did you check the TaskManager/ActivityMonitor/SystemMonitor for resource usage?
• Does it do it when the host/guest are idle?

[drs@dcneuro.net]

Sorry, trying to keep up patients while doing this and dealing with a lack of air conditioning too. I only use Dragon Naturally Speaking to dictate, into a URL based EHR, in Chrome. I also use DNS to dictate into dragon pad, which is essentially a note pad within the software. Having said that, the mouse is not moving smoothly as soon as I start up windows (v7 64bit), without doing anything.

Here is a screenshot of the activity monitor. It does appear to be quite high. This is just up[on opening windows and not doing anything further.

Screen Shot 2019-06-19 at 6.02.21 PM.zip

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[drs@dcneuro.net]

Well, I opened Dragon and chrome, and it wen up to 125% of CPU use. Not even sure how that is possible. I presume that this is the problem?

[socratis]

00:00:01.871315 Host RAM: 8192MB (8.0GB) total, 3077MB (3.0GB) available
00:00:02.005887   RamSize           <integer> = 0x00000000fa000000 (4 194 304 000, 4 000 MB, 3.9 GB)

You are assigning memory to your guest, that you do not have available. Either close some applications on the host, buy more RAM for the host, or reduce the amount of RAM assigned to the guest.

00:00:02.005884   NumCPUs           <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:02.346454 CPUM: Physical host cores: 6

You should definitely give your VM at least 2 CPUs. Or even 3 and 4, since Dragon and Chrome can use the CPU.

00:00:02.005948 [/Devices/ahci/0/LUN#0/Config/] (level 5)
00:00:02.005949   BlockCache <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)

Go to the VM Settings » Storage » select your SATA controller » Use Host I/O Cache: enable that.

00:00:02.006079 VMSVGA3dEnabled  <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)
00:00:02.006079 VMSVGAEnabled    <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:02.006080 VRamSize         <integer> = 0x0000000003000000 (50 331 648, 48 MB)
00:00:02.879963 GUI: 2D video acceleration is disabled

Go to the VM Settings » Display » Screen. Change the Graphics controller from "VBoxSVGA" to "VBoxVGA". Enable 2D and 3D acceleration. Increase the VRAM to the max 256 MB.

Make the changes above, see what happens...

[drs@dcneuro.net]

Sorry for the delay. My office is still being repaired from water damage, thus the reason I had to set up a new computer.

I made all of those changes. I also decreased my RAM to 3, increased the CPU's to 4. It does not really seem to be much better as it still continually locks up. I mean it is a little more responsive, but definitely too slow to use to function daily.