suggestions about vm guest settings for old host...

[p060477]

hi,
host win 10 home with 8gb ram intel i5 4590
guest win 11 pro
considering that my pc has this mobo:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA ... -rev-10#ov
and ram 8gb and cpu intel i5 4590
which settings of the guest win 11 you suggest to be able to not have so much slowings
and sometimes pc's freezin...??
of course when i run it ,win 11 guest, i obviously stop every operations and things in my win 10 host...
but apart this duly thing , which are the settings you suggest for my guest win 11?
i mean how ram ...how hd free space acceleration...video-screen memory and so on ...
i mean the all things that are considered in its tab "settings"

thxs so much again indeed

[scottgus1]

From the log in your other topic viewtopic.php?p=537785#p537785 the VM now has two processors and 5GB RAM:

Host CPU status:
00:00:10.800215 CPUM: Logical host processors: 4 present, 4 max, 4 online, online mask: 000000000000000f
00:00:10.800216 CPUM: Physical host cores: 4
00:00:10.800432 Full Name: "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz"
00:00:10.800408 NX - No-Execute/Execute-Disable = 1 (1)
00:00:09.014481 EnableNestedPaging <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:09.014231 EnablePAE <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
Guest CPU settings:
00:00:09.014236 NumCPUs <integer> = 0x0000000000000002 (2)
....
00:00:08.163473 Host RAM: 8077MB (7.8GB) total, 5515MB (5.3GB) available
00:00:09.014240 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000140000000 (5 368 709 120, 5.0 GiB)
00:00:09.014466 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128.0 MiB)

RAM is tight on this PC. Can you get more? Otherwise, lower VM RAM to 4GB and make sure the VM is started right away after booting the host.

Two processors in a Windows VM is usually OK. The host PC CPU is a 4-core non-hyperthreaded, so don't put more processors in the VM.

7.0 is having bugs still being found, with graphics and seizing issues. You could try the test builds and development snapshots. Save the installer until you update again later. You'll need it if your host's MSI installation database has problems (they do) and the installer will not be available for download after the next test build gets released, which could happen anytime. Also note the special instructions for Windows 10 & 11 hosts.

[p060477]

hi Scott and thxs again
you suggest the test builds or the development?
is there an easy way to simply reduce the vm's ram from 5 to 4 gb or have i to create a new vm?
and about:
"make sure the VM is started right away after booting the host."..:
you mean that is better just after starting the pc and booting in my win 10 host the very next thing
is better to start the vm win 11 guest...am i wrong?
and all the other settings of the win 11 guest vm is better to leave them as they are in default by vb creating wizard?
thxs so much indeed
cheers

[scottgus1]

you suggest the test builds or the development?

I don't know. Try one, then the other.

s there an easy way to simply reduce the vm's ram from 5 to 4 gb

Yes, go to the VM's System settings, Motherboard tab, Base Memory slider.

"make sure the VM is started right away after booting the host."..:
you mean that is better just after starting the pc and booting in my win 10 host the very next thing
is better to start the vm win 11 guest

Yes.

all the other settings of the win 11 guest vm is better to leave them as they are in default by vb creating wizard?

Yes.

[p060477]

thanks so much indeed again
for your kind helping
and patience too
cheers