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Windows 8.1 Pro 64Bit Guest Slow?

Hi,

I am having performance issues with my Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64Bit guest
under Xubuntu 14.04 L.T.S. 64Bit Linux host.

I am using the most up to date VirtualBox from the official website.
Windows guest additions are installed into the Windows 8.1 guest.

I am running the Windows 8.1 guest on the following thin client: Intel Celeron 1.2GHz 2 core, 4GB RAM, Intel graphics
I have allocated 1536MB RAM, 64MB VRAM, and 50GB hard drive to the Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine.

The Windows 8.1 installs ok from DVD, but after the installation the guest O.S. is too slow to use?
Am I asking too much from this thin client desktop or is there something I can do to improve performance?
Thanks!

Jesse

Post a (zipped) VM log file: Right click the VM in the GUI. Select "Show Log". Save "VBox.log" to a file. Compress that file and attach it to a message here.

mpack wrote:Post a (zipped) VM log file: Right click the VM in the GUI. Select "Show Log". Save "VBox.log" to a file. Compress that file and attach it to a message here.

Hi,

I attached the ZIP of the log file, thanks!

Jesse

There are 2 cores assigned to the guest but the host only has 2 cores. I would try reducing the cores to 1 for the guest. Based on the Host CPU it's not going to be very fast.

From Microsoft's Website:

System requirements
Windows 8.1
If you want to run Windows 8.1 on your PC, here's what it takes:
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

Some feel that the minimum requirements are to run Windows 8.1 fairly well. My personal view is it's the minimum to run it all all. The requirements are for the minimum requirements on hardware of course.