Windows 8.1 configuration help

[jborn]

I've got a few questions about running Windows 8.1 under OS X.

The guest OS will randomly take focus. I'm not sure what is happening, but I can be reading a web page and suddenly Windows 8.1 comes into focus. Anyway to stop this behavior?

After a recent update to VirtualBox 4.3.8 r92456 when using the guest OS in full screen mode the Mac OS X hot corner no longer works and the mac dock no longer appears when I bring my mouse to the bottom of the screen. Both behaviors return to normal after I shut down the Windows 8.1 guest.

I'm running this on a 4771 i7 with 32 gig of RAM. I'm trying to figure out what the best configuration would be for the processor tab? How many CPUs can I assign? I think I can choose between 1 and 4 for each core, but I'm not sure.

Last is when I tried to add a new storage VirtualBox decided that was the boot disk and wouldn't start up until I removed the storage. What steps do I need to do in order to add another storage that would be the Windows 8.1 secondary drive and leave the current storage as the boot partition?

Thanks for any insight!

[ChipMcK]

The guest OS will randomly take focus. I'm not sure what is happening, but I can be reading a web page and suddenly Windows 8.1 comes into focus. Anyway to stop this behavior?

This is a quirk of OS X since I believe Lion. My work-around is to have a Finder window opened on selected
'spaces' to "/Volumes" [Finder --> Go --> Go to Folder ...]. This is not a reliable work-around, 80%.

BTW, VMware Fusion users have same complaint.

Best of Luck

[jborn]

Well I still like OS X, just a little less!

What about the "I'm running this on a 4771 i7 with 32 gig of RAM. I'm trying to figure out what the best configuration would be for the processor tab? How many CPUs can I assign? I think I can choose between 1 and 4 for each core, but I'm not sure." portion of my question? I'm just not sure if the VirtualBox's setting are representing the i7 as one processor or a processor for each core? and if so how many cores does the i7 have? I believe 4?

[BillG]

The i7 4770 has 4 cores, 8 threads.

http://ark.intel.com/products/75122/Int ... o-3_90-GHz

[jborn]

So it has 4 cores.. How many processors does that equate to on the processor configuration tab?

[jborn]

I believe this link answers my questions about cores: http://superuser.com/questions/297697/a ... virtualbox

[ChipMcK]

The guest OS will randomly take focus. I'm not sure what is happening, but I can be reading a web page and suddenly Windows 8.1 comes into focus. Anyway to stop this behavior?

This is a quirk of OS X since I believe Lion. My work-around is to have a Finder window opened on selected
'spaces' to "/Volumes" [Finder --> Go --> Go to Folder ...]. This is not a reliable work-around, 80%.

Recent change to System Preferences ----> Mission Control


Uncheck When switching to a application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application

and the "unprovoked" switches are not occurring

Best