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I've recently updated to 4.1.2. My Vbox runs so extremely slow I pretty much can't do anything. Anyone else experiencing this? Is there something I need to do to fix this?

I have a fairly powerful machine - so I don't think that is the problem.

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz


Thanks!

And the VM settings? From which version did you upgrade?

I'm sorry, I don't know which version I previously had. I do however upgrade each time I get a notification that a new version is available.

I've attached a screenshot of my VM settings.

Thanks for your help.

Anyone?

Have you tried adding more memory to the guest? 411MB seems awfully tight.

Edit: Holy Cow! And only 10GB for the hard drive.

Bring up Task Manager in the Windows XP guest and see how much memory you still have available.

rpmurray wrote:Edit: Holy Cow! And only 10GB for the hard drive.

So? My native Windows XP (which I haven't booted for over a year) is 7,5 GB with 2 GB free space.

411 MB should be enough to run XP, but to get it fluent, not likely. It's also not a power of 2 and Windows is quite picky about that. 512 MB should be a lot better. That's what I give my VMs and they are happy, running quite smooth. Depending on the work and applications, it's a little low though.

Actually, changing the memory to 512 seems to have really done the trick!

Thanks to all!

Sasquatch wrote:So? My native Windows XP (which I haven't booted for over a year) is 7,5 GB with 2 GB free space.

Must be in the difference between how we use it. I usually create enough files in the space of a year to fill 10GB. With hard disk space so cheap nowadays I usually don't set my VMs to less than 100GB. I was just considering that he might be seeing memory thrashing and with a small hard drive that might have also have lead to disk fragmentation, both of which may have slowed the VM.

I only use Windows VBox to test web pages, nothing more. I can't stand Windows

Anyway, working much better by setting it to 512 - thanks a bunch!

rpmurray wrote:

Sasquatch wrote:So? My native Windows XP (which I haven't booted for over a year) is 7,5 GB with 2 GB free space.

Must be in the difference between how we use it. I usually create enough files in the space of a year to fill 10GB. With hard disk space so cheap nowadays I usually don't set my VMs to less than 100GB. I was just considering that he might be seeing memory thrashing and with a small hard drive that might have also have lead to disk fragmentation, both of which may have slowed the VM.

I have all my files outside the OS disk. I always partition physical systems to house the OS on it's own partition so in case it crashes, a reinstall does not wipe the user files like documents, saves making backups just for that and then restore them. Some applications that don't require installation, like Opera, aren't on the OS partition either, saving some additional space as well. That's how I can make the OS partition so small.
My XP VMs all have a VDI of 10 GB and are happy with it. Plenty of space to spare, but they don't have much installed.