Extremely Slow guest performance

Discussions about using Windows guests in VirtualBox.
rbscott
Posts: 4
Joined: 21. Mar 2009, 23:55

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by rbscott »

found the answer to my own problem. splashy spins at startup. I am not sure if I have it configured incorrectly or not, but whatever the case, it spins and causes ridiculously long startup times.
cornbread
Posts: 82
Joined: 22. Dec 2007, 05:36

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by cornbread »

I am finding that my VM is slower now with VT-x/AMD-V enabled in 2.1.4 than it was without in 2.1.0. I will test going back to no acceleration to see if I see a speed improvement.
cornbread
Posts: 82
Joined: 22. Dec 2007, 05:36

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by cornbread »

I was correct in my thinking that disabling VT-x/AMD-V on my X2 5400+ sped up the guest by about 300% when doing anything that required processing power even if it was opening up a second browser window.

USING VBOX 2.2.2 This has been happening since 2.1.0 IIRC.
megagram
Posts: 4
Joined: 29. May 2009, 18:42
Primary OS: MS Windows XP
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Linux, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by megagram »

I can confirm this. Using VirtualBox 2.2.2, deactivating VT-X/AMD-V increases performance in my XP guest dramatically.
cornbread
Posts: 82
Joined: 22. Dec 2007, 05:36

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by cornbread »

@megagram

AMD or Intel? I'll post a bug.
cornbread
Posts: 82
Joined: 22. Dec 2007, 05:36

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by cornbread »

Still an issue in 2.2.4
smrbrts
Posts: 2
Joined: 15. Jun 2009, 18:17
Primary OS: MS Windows 2008
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: xp, Vista

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by smrbrts »

How may I check the status of this issue? Is there a status available to the public?

I just loaded 2.2.4-47978 on a Windows Server 2008 64-bit host on an Intel quad core whitebox with 8Gb of memory. The hardware support for virtualization is enabled in the BIOS. I'll test with this disabled in the client and/or host this evening. XP seems extremely slow as a guest. I just happened to be loading XP on an old P4 physical machine for someone and it performed so much faster than the VM in VirtualBox on WS2008. Looking at the performance tab on the WS2008 host, it appeared that one processor core was much more heavily used than the other three.
smrbrts
Posts: 2
Joined: 15. Jun 2009, 18:17
Primary OS: MS Windows 2008
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: xp, Vista

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by smrbrts »

I removed the Hyper-V role from Windows Server and this greatly improved performance.
killer64
Posts: 3
Joined: 6. Mar 2010, 21:02
Primary OS: Ubuntu 8.10
VBox Version: OSE self-compiled
Guest OSses: windows xp professional

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by killer64 »

i got the bsod after i disabled it :/
killer64
Posts: 3
Joined: 6. Mar 2010, 21:02
Primary OS: Ubuntu 8.10
VBox Version: OSE self-compiled
Guest OSses: windows xp professional

Re: Extremely Slow guest performance

Post by killer64 »

tried to delete the vm and use the disk image stored dindt realy help at all
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