Windows 10 guest slow. I assign it 16GB of RAM and 2 CPUs.
Windows 10 guest slow Aug 28, 2024 · I'm regularly building the emulation suite MAME on Linux and on Windows. All integration services except Hyper-V Guest Service Interface are on by default on Windows guest operating systems. It is running very slowly. Thank you Feb 25, 2025 · After installing VMware Workstation on a desktop computer running Windows 11/10, you might experience extremely slow performance and unstable operation of the Windows guest operating system in virtual machines. May 3, 2023 · The wall clock time in the guest OS had to be adjusted by -5 hours, which is probably a consequence of configuring System > Motherboard > Hardware Clock in UTC Time, which is a bit unusual to do for Windows guests. The services can be turned on and off individually. 6GHZ and 2GB RAM). 12. 6. I've had a very good performance on 16. However, on the Ubuntu 18 host runs ridiculously slow, ya kno Jul 9, 2020 · Improving the performance of a Windows 11 Guest on QEMU This guide is intended for existing KVM/QEMU Libvirt setups and will help you reach near native performance on your Windows 10 or 11 Guest. I have multiple times created a VM with Windows 10 on it. Mar 2021, 11:00 Hi I don't know if this will help, but I am a Windows 10 user and had/have quite a few problems with it myself. Aug 23, 2022 · My Host OS is Windows 11, my guest OS is Linux Mint 20. Nov 2023, 13:17 Start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. 0. I of course installed all the required drivers in the Windows 10 guest. 1 (its the ova the school provided for us to work with). Applications running in the guest virtual machines respond intermittently. The guest OS is very slow and it freezes frequently. This tutorial contains several methods to optimize VirtualBox's performance under Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS. 2 and upgrading to windows 11 22h2 i noticed that the windows 10 guest boot time got much longer and with the cpu reaching 80% - 90% during boot, so I reinstalled the version 6. It runs nicely there. Apr 17, 2025 · Introduction: If you're experiencing slow VMware performance on your Windows 11 machine, you're not alone. This is because a service that uses Microsoft Hyper-V is running on your host PC. System Info: CPU : Intel Core i5 Graphic Card : Nv Aug 10, 2022 · Guest: Windows 10 Enterprise (existing VM) 8 Cores :: 32GB RAM I previously had Archlinux on my Host and with that, and VMware Workstation, the VM run at pretty much native speed. 38 which seems more stable for the programs I use, but the boot Idk what to do anymore. Jun 24, 2020 · Windows 10 VM very slow to boot by gevrey » 24. Feb 2021, 23:53 @reckone, there are various existing threads that discuss this issue and offer a workaround endorsed by many users, including a very recent nearby thread ' Has anyone gotten Windows 10 (guest) to perform well with Catalina? '. Disable Hyper-V & Hypervisor. I upgraded to Windows 10 and re-installed VirtualBox, but it's very slow. I replaced the " Microsoft Basic Display Adater " wtih the " Red Hat QXL controller ", but it is still Feb 1, 2021 · Re: Windows 10 guest runs slow by paulmc » 2. I installed virt-manager in the Linux container and installed a windows 10 guest in it. My May 3, 2022 · Re: Windows 10 Guest slow on Windows 10 Host by scottgus1 » 23. Nov 29, 2015 · I had VirtualBox installed on Windows 8. Jan 21, 2021 · You might notice in the guest window's Status Bar the green turtle: Image The choice of animal is appropriate: Your guest is running, just really slow. I am running Windows 10 guest within my Slackware 14. All settings are OK, VMware Tools got upgraded automatically, I Jul 13, 2018 · Starting with Windows 10 April 2018 Update, I noticed very poor performance of Windows 10 guests in VirtualBox. Also installed the Guest additions. To be clear, I'm NOT looking to play games or GPU-intensive tasks, and can't GPU passthrough on my laptop. Allocate More System Resources to VM. I have a pretty beafy PC for a simple Windows 10 VM, but it’s still very slow. 7 (HPE version) on a DL360G9 with a single Xeon E5-2620v4 and 32G RAM. On this server there are only 2 VMs: Each has Windows 10 x64, 80G HDD, 8 cpu cores on one socket, 8G RAM, installed vmtools, paravirtual scsi controller and vmxnet. Jul 7, 2025 · This tutorial contains several methods to optimize VirtualBox's performance under Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS. check if VBS is enabled in the guest, this can also impact performance heavily official best practices for Windows Server 2022 Dec 19, 2022 · Hi,I'm running a guest Windows 10 x64 OS in VMware Workstation 17, guest and host specs are listed below. I think this is because there are no proper graphics drivers, but where can I get them? I did install guest addons but it didn’t improve the performance at all. Spreading your RAM evenly over your host and your guest disregards the fact that Windows 10 needs a lot more RAM. The machine runs fine on the Windows host. This guide is a collection of the all interventions I could find on wikis, forums and blogs that had a measurable impact on guest performance benchmarks. Host: Windows 11 21H2 22000. Oct 12, 2019 · [Resolved] Slow Windows 10 guest by ondramas » 12. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. The guest OS is really slow and laggy especially the M Jun 4, 2024 · As title says. In Windows, typing, clicking, opening applications, that's all disk (assuming 2vCPU at 1. Oct 2019, 15:18 Hi, my Windows 10 guest OS runs very slow. I just don't know what else is needed. This happens on two separate guests. 1vCPU is the minimum requirement for Windows 10 and Server 2019, but Windows Update will eat that one core exclusively. Sep 22, 2023 · The Linux guests are fine, but all the Windows guests are struggling with slow performance. Currently running the unlicensed version if that matters. Jun 30, 2018 · Not sure if any other VirtualBox user encountered similar issue. I am running free ESXi 6. I'm just checking if some software will run correctly on another machine. I have created a Windows 10 Guest OS Virtual Machine with Workstation Player Pro 17 that I have used the hardware compatibility to downgrade to v16. Nov 21, 2024 · These 7 killer tweaks, tips and tricks are sure to help you improve and optimize Hyper-V VM Performance on your Windows computer. However it is very slow to boot. I'm running a native Windows 11 in a dual boot configuration, and a guest Windows 10 in VirtualBox hosted by an openSUSE Linux. 527 VirtualBox 6. The host OS is Pop!_OS. I setup the same VM the same way in virt-manager on a Dell 5490 i5 8th gen 8GB ram 256GB disk. I get good performance after a full reboot of the VM (sometimes about 10% of the time it's still incredibly slow to respond). tl;dr Would appreciate if anyone can help me with the following questions: May 26, 2021 · I recently updated a virtual box host machine to Windows 11 and now one of my Windows 10 machines is crawling after a few hours of use. This is not the case with the Ubuntu guest where the Guest Load steeply rises during compiling, close to 100%. Oct 9, 2024 · The Windows guest is fresh, from official Win10 iso image, though virt-manager auto-detected the os as win 11 and I chose win 10 instead later. On laptops, you can change power modes by simply clicking the battery icon from the taskbar. Jun 2020, 13:55 I have a workstation with 64GB of RAM and 8 cores. I'm running a pretty standard software developer stack of applications on this machine. Disable 3D Acceleration in VirtualBox. If you need more information, I'm willing to provide it. May 21, 2025 · There are some reports that memory balooning with windows guests impacts performance, you can try to disable it. 2) and Guest additions same version. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set. Symptoms: Services running in guest virtual machines respond slowly. Data is stored on 4x 450G 10k SAS combined to a RAID5 on a P440ar. You could try opening Command Prompt as an Administrator (right click) type sfc/scannow and let it run. 10 and 21. Feb 2023, 12:10 Hi all, sorry in advance for my english, after installing Virtualbox 7. On my host, i get 900-950mb upload and around 850-950mb download speeds. Here is how I fixed it. Hi, I installed Windows 10 on a VM using virt-manager and it is very laggy. Whether you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V (applicable to all hosts running 6. This issue is often related to Hyper-V, a feature of Windows that can interfere with VMware's performance. For building in Windows, I'm using the MSYS2 environment. 2 by VirtualBox 5. So far, I've been unable to get 'acceptable' performance from graphics drivers, I'm talking click-dragging Oct 18, 2022 · Hi, My host was Windows 10 and it got upgraded to Windows 11 rcently. 38 r153438 (Qt5. The guest virtual machine may seem slow or unresponsive. Opening apps or moving windows is not smooth at all. A lot of background tasks (a lot more than Windows 7) require a heavy portion of your RAM. The circle progress bar it turning very slowly, and it needs 4-5 minutes to be ready. 5. 2. Many users have reported lagging virtual machines or general performance degradation when running VMware on Windows 11. When it freezes in the Virtual Macine logs it says "Heartbeat last recieved x Feb 1, 2017 · The Guest Additions are additional device drivers and system applications, installed on the guest machines, that optimize the guest operating system for better performance and usability. Sometimes it freezes forever and I have to close and re-start the virtualbox. 10 Host Extensions and Guest Additions installed HW Virt is enabled in BIOS (like I said things were great before Hyper-V and allowing Windows to reenable it is the only change I allowed). FIX: VirtualBox Machine Runs Slowly on Windows 11/10. Windows guest never runs smoothly for me, I don't know what's with graphics but I recommend you to use VirtIO bus for disk devices (it runs faster, but you need drivers when installing Windows ). Mar 23, 2024 · Windows 10 Guest OS is slow and CPU is maxed at 100% at Idle (no workload). Feb 28, 2023 · Windows 10 guest extremely slow when boot by sslmike » 28. Feb 2016, 07:32 I just configured a windows 10 guest hosted by my Windows 10 install. If you have a system with an NVMe SSD, try creating a Windows 10 VM with 2vCPU and 2GB RAM, it'll still feel fast. I'm not sure if it can be improved but I'd be very happy if somebody had a look at my log file and maybe suggested some changes. I have a Windows 10 Guest OS with Virtual box (Version 6. It's almost impossible to use Windows 10 guest in VB because there're so much lag and at times the whole VM freezes and I have to "power off" by closing the VM window. I gave the machine 6 cpus from my 5930k, (the max allowed) and I have 12 counting hyper threading. Windows 10 guest slow, on Windows 10 host. I use Windows 10 VMs from time to time for non-intensive operations (teams, msword, etc). It is like a low-FPS game. May 26, 2020 · Windows 10 guest slow (moving windows stutteringy) Discussion in ' Windows Virtual Machine ' started by ChristophK2, May 26, 2020. Aug 27, 2018 · I created a Windows 10 Virtualbox VM on Windows 10 host. I use the virtio drivers for disks and network and QXL for video. Set Power Plan to High Performance. Was literally about to pay for it, but if I can't fix this issue, will be useless. It's a fairly powerful machine. by Zerophase » 16. I've tried running VMware as admin, disabling its process' power throttling from command prompt. Mar 25, 2021 · Re: Windows 10 guest is very slow by Bit-tech » 27. Hopefully, the workaround will be successful for you too. 1 and it was working correctly. Performance is not good enough for occasional use. May 16, 2014 · Windows 10 is slow to start but fast on a restart (measured from the VirtualBox splash screen until the Windows wallpaper is displayed. . I assign it 16GB of RAM and 2 CPUs. 2 all my Windows 10 and 11 guests are very slow. Remove & reinstall Guest Additions. 1. May 29, 2018 · Windows 10 is known for not being efficient with RAM. I've recently made the switch from VirtualBox to KVM/qemu running virt-manager front-end. The Problem: The VM is just ridiculously slow. For Windows, I have a variety of stuff installed, including a 32-bit Win 10, 2 64-bit Win 10, and a Win 11 installation. I've tried whatever I can I'm running a windows 10 VM on windows 11 host through Workstation Player 17. Interestingly,… This article provides information on isolating a performance issue on ESXi/ESX. And I tried default graphic setting (QXL, no virtio). 5, but after upgrading to 17. 1 and above) and disabled HyperV (applicable to Windows 10 Hosts) Whether you have installed Guest Additions and/or Host Extensions (this solves 90% of the problems we see) Aug 28, 2024 · Windows 11 native: 367 secs Linux (openSUSE) host: 247 secs I noticed in the Activity Overview (in VirtualBox Manager) that the "Guest Load" in the Windows guest does not rise above 10%, while 90% is "VMM Load". Example: I'm currently trying to compress a folder (~1-2gb), it's at 70-100% CPU Jun 9, 2020 · In Windows 10, you can solve slow VirtualBox by changing the power mode to high performance mode. 32r149290 Guests: Ubuntu 18. Oct 7, 2021 · The guest is Windows 10 with 2vCPU (I've tried 4GB RAM, 6GB RAM, 8GB RAM). sgm gtk yrtn ivpt 1e dtwa hsapq owvay jzjfg cw7