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Running the memory test in the previous post, both on the (Win7 x64) host and a Win7 x64 guest obtained a guest result 98% of the data rate of the host. That is one sample point on each, so I have no idea what the variance is. 98% sounds pretty good to me for a virtual environment.

I'm not too interested in the graphics tests. No interest in games. Flash and Silverlight videos run smoothly on the guest, direct from the Web. Good enough for my purposes.

Next up: CPU and disk tests.

I am a bit concerned about the VM not exposing an L2 cache. Could this possibly affect some system processes?

Sasquatch wrote:I had the same problem. It hangs on the "Computing video decoding" step, which is probably a test to see how well it can play video files. It will probably fail on other virtualization programs too.

No, I have VMware Workstation 7 and the Windows Vista/7 guest Performance rate runs and completes successfully on my computer. So it is not quite true that "It will probably fail on other virtualization programs too.".

I got a 4.6 under both Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Sasquatch wrote:So you faked the score, then the test still didn't run as it should have. And to make Aero work? Even if your system is unrated, unable to be rated or rated 1,0, you will still be able to use Aero if the video card supports it. The VB graphics card doesn't, even with the GA installed from safe mode.

Right on most counts. However, any video hardware that supports aero will have at least a 2.0 score.

BTW, a "video card" is not necessary in most recent systems. My desktop has no graphic card (or any other cards) at all, but I have aero on dual monitors. 3D support is relatively weak (video rating 3.4), but I don't do games.

Ran from command line:

winsat memformal -buffersize 64K
winsat formal

And Windows 7 got the performance index. Overall is 1.0, of course, as no support for 3D in VB.

I understand this thread is a bit old, but I was googling around trying to find out why the experience index wasnt assessing in the VirtualBox... Finally with some troubleshooting I was finally able to get the GUI version of the win experience to make it all the way through, Simply power down your VM and turn off 3d acceleration.

centerorbit wrote:I understand this thread is a bit old, but I was googling around trying to find out why the experience index wasnt assessing in the VirtualBox... Finally with some troubleshooting I was finally able to get the GUI version of the win experience to make it all the way through, Simply power down your VM and turn off 3d acceleration.

Hi, the default setting of VM is 3D acceleration off, and I still get the issue about winsat failed.
According to my tests, the issue is random..., the fail rate is around 8/11
Do you have any suggestion for me??? Thank you.

I just installed virtual box over windows 10 to run windows 7 Windows media center. It seems to need winsat to run so I can use the tuners.

The pc install is windows 7 sp1 2gb ram provided and default video ram with intel 530 graphics display.

Thanks for any help