leonardopereira wrote:On CPU cores, my machine has 8.
Well, actually...? No. It doesn't. It only has 4, sorry to disappoint you...
Just take a look at your log:
00:00:05.795514 Full Name: "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz"
That's what you have, right? Now, go to the Intel website that describes your
i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz CPU. In the
Performance section you can clearly see that you have 4 cores, not 8. You may have 8
threads, but VirtualBox doesn't really care about threads, it cares about cores.
Just click on the question mark next to Cores/Threads to see which one is a hardware feature, and which one is a
marketing software feature.
leonardopereira wrote:About Hyper-V, I do not know what it's all about.
It helps with exposing the paravirtualization interface to the VM. "Hyper-V" is used for Windows guests. For a Linux guest you should use "KVM". Or, even better, you select "Default", and you let VirtualBox do the work for you.
leonardopereira wrote:I will change the number of monitors to 1 only ... I'll alter it and see if it is interfering in any way;
No, it won't, you have a hardening error and your 3D setting cannot work. But that wasn't the point, the point was to stick with the defaults untii you have the whole thing going.
leonardopereira wrote:Yes, this VM was created from scratch, but it was not me.
If you have nothing that you care about in the VM, i would strongly urge you to delete the whole thing and start from scratch. With the appropriate disk size this time
leonardopereira wrote:Regarding the NVidia drivers, they are already updated. I just do not know (yet) about their signature. I'll check.
There's a program called "
SignTool.exe" from Microsoft that you can use it to verify the signatures of various files, as part of the
Microsoft SDK (not sure if you need all of it). See what it has to say about the signatures...