Windows 8 guest has extremely slow performance

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Joey177
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Windows 8 guest has extremely slow performance

Post by Joey177 »

I installed Windows 8 RP as a guest on my new Retina MacBook Pro. I gave it 50 GB and 2 GB RAM. I installed the Guest Additions. But it is extremely slow! The mouse moves fine, but the UI just can't keep up. Clicking and typing takes SEVERAL seconds if not minutes before it will respond, if it does respond.

Is this just a compatibility issue, meaning we need VB to be updated to fully support Windows 8? Or perhaps I can adjust it to run better?
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Re: Windows 8 guest has extremely slow performance

Post by Perryg »

Please continue this topic at viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44577 so we can keep the development questions localised.
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