How to speed up loading time?

[NorbyD]

Take a look at the recommendations I made in: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=104878&p=511439#p511415

The primary cause of a slow VM is the VM screen size. I never use larger than 1920x1080 on my 2017 iMac. Anything larger is a road to hurtfulness. Scaling of 200% is worthwhile on a retina display.

There are many other issues that can cause a guest to perform badly. It really helps narrow it down if you attach a compressed VBox.log of a session that exhibits the behaviour.

To do this:
1. Start and Stop your VM. Start your VM from Powered Off and not as a Saved session. Then shutdown your guest OS.
2. In VirtualBox Manager, right click your VM and choose 'Show In Finder'. The VM should be Stopped (see 1 above).
3. Open the folder 'Logs' in the window that just opened.
4. Right click VBox.log and choose the Compress "VBox.log" option
5. Attach VBox.log.zip to a new post in this forum.
6. DO NOT Copy/Paste long screeds of log text into a post - it's hard to read and not very useful.

I've attached my Log. I appreciate your help!

[granada29]

It looks as though you have overcommited RAM in your VM configuration.

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00:00:03.409619 Host RAM: 10240MB (10.0GB) total, 4490MB (4.3GB) available


00:00:03.875762   RamSize           <integer> = 0x000000015c000000 (5 838 471 168, 5 568 MB, 5.4 GB)

I suggest you lower the VM RAM to 3GB, which should leave you with plenty of headroom for macOS.
I also note that you have the GuestAdditions iso attached to your VM. You should install the Guest Additions in your VM (if you have not done so already).

I hope that helps.

[NorbyD]

It looks as though you have overcommited RAM in your VM configuration.

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00:00:03.409619 Host RAM: 10240MB (10.0GB) total, 4490MB (4.3GB) available


00:00:03.875762   RamSize           <integer> = 0x000000015c000000 (5 838 471 168, 5 568 MB, 5.4 GB)

I suggest you lower the VM RAM to 3GB, which should leave you with plenty of headroom for macOS.
I also note that you have the GuestAdditions iso attached to your VM. You should install the Guest Additions in your VM (if you have not done so already).

I hope that helps.

Thanks.

I'm assuming I can lower the Ram in the "Processor" section within settings?

I did install Guest Additions.

I appreciate your help!