Why does my Windows XP instalation on Virtual Box perform so bad? It needed all the afternoon to install and after that it was too laggy, slow and the screen ended up freezing.Before that I've had another instalation, this time Windows 7 and it did not allow me to do basic things like playing solitaire either. What am I doing wrong? Is it space? RAM? I want to feel the XP experience once more
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>>108524375> space? RAM? You don't have 4GB of space and 256MB RAM to spare?
>>108524375For Windows VMs, even older OSs, I usually use 8GB RAM, 4 CPU Threads, Video Memory 128MB, Bridged Adapter.
Virtualbox has become an unusable piece of shit
>>108524470I do>>108524453Could you elaborate? I don't have cd reader>>108524479Hmm, I'll try to delete my current instalations and go again with it
>>108524375Try version 6.1
>>108524537What would you use instead? (Free alternative if possible)>>108524545Alright. Why though?
>>108524540You don't need to delete and reinstall, just go in to the settings of the VM and change the values.
>>108524553Only if nothing else works. I just know that ReactOS works better on version 6 than 7 and I had a smooth experience using windows 7 there.
>>108524606I use Windows 11 (mostly because forced by Microslop to "upgrade")>>108524587Oh, sweet, ok
>>108524635Current Win10 VBox setupVBox: Version 7.1.0Base Memory: 8GB RAMProcessors: 4 CPU ThreadsVideo Memory: 128MBGraphics Controller: VBoxSVGAStorage: 50GBNetwork > Attached to: Bridged AdapterIf that works for Win10, then it will work for XP and Win7.Do what this anon >>108524453 said and install the Guest Additions CD from inside your running Windows VM.
>>108524553qemu is goated. it takes .5 seconds to start a vm and boot to something usable.it's also much more flexible, better features, and WAY faster than vmware/virtualbox
>>108524699Oooh, so that's what anon meant. Ok ok>>108524719I'll tryThanks y'all!
>>108524553VMware Workstation Pro is now free to use, you just need to sign up on broadcoms website and figure out how to use their maze of a navigation system to DL it. It performs so much better than Virtualbox its not even funny I use it to compile some apps that require Visual Studio and the compile time is at least 500% faster than VBox did, I will never go back to that shit.
>>108524787there are some guis for it, but never used one. usually you have one command to create the vm's volume, then one command to run it.
