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I recently installed the newest version of virtualbox along with Kali Linux 2018.3. Settings are done on the level that my host machine should be able to handle it.
However, the Kali Linux is extremely laggy even when I am only running terminal on Kali.
I have checked the other topics with their solution (3D on and off, re-check the settings and so on)

I have found a few problems in the log such as:

- AIOMgr host limits number of active IO request to 16

But I dont know how to fix this particularly.

See attachment for the vbox log file.

P.S. Installed guest edition, helping a bit only.

I have a MBPr11,3 running 10.11.6. With the exception of the CPUs (I have 2 for the VM) comparing the two logs is like comparing two drops of water. And my Kali is working OK. Maybe if you give it a 2nd CPU and see how it goes?

socratis wrote:I have a MBPr11,3 running 10.11.6. With the exception of the CPUs (I have 2 for the VM) comparing the two logs is like comparing two drops of water. And my Kali is working OK. Maybe if you give it a 2nd CPU and see how it goes?

I am using the Macbook pro 15 from 2017 with touchbar with 10.13.6. Already tried with 2 CPUs, but no performance increase. I think working with the vm is do-able, but running and writing python script in pycharm is very annoying since the letters are lagging.

So... Wait a minute... We went from "runs extremely slow" to "writing python script in pycharm is very annoying since the letters are lagging"?

That was the ... "extremely slow"?

Works only in terminal > Extremely slow
Works in pycharm > Not do-able.

Fine with that?

Still it does not make sense that a VM is this laggy, when i see other VMs on youtube working perfectly fine.

To give you a more detailed of "extremely slow": random lag spikes whenever changing tabs, moving just the terminal to the left or right is very laggy. Opening more programs on kali is pumping virtualbox CPU usage through the roof. Its just one example of pycharm not able to be even write a normal script

OK, let's try from the beginning. I have a Kali VM based on "kali-linux-light-2018.1-i386.iso". What do you have so that I can install another VM to try it out?