On my previous computer (Intel I3) starting/powering-off VirtualBox (Windows) was a long process (counted in minutes).
I thought that when I speed up my computer (now Intel I5-10500T, 16GB ram) it would solve my concern. It didn’t. It is still slow. I applied enough memory and processors to virtual machine. Booting up i power-off is almost no faster.
Running applications within VirtualBox takes some time too.
Is there a solution for this?
You may be better off posting your question to the Virtualization subforum, where the real topic experts hang about.
I run on an an i5-8500T and it is pretty fast.
Host is OpenSUSE leap 15.5 host 16gb and 500gb nvme - ram for guest 4gb and 66gb drive (for windows 11) 4 processors TPM 2.0 and all processor boxed check and cpu at 100%.
The Window updates do take forever and reboots after updates can take 30 minutes (that is windows not virtualbox). I leave mine running 24/7 and have no problems since 7.0.10 fixed all the windows guest additions lockups.
I suppose you tried to enable or disable 3D acceleration, to see if there is a difference?
I do not use 3d but I do give 128mb to the display
Hi.
Starting Windows 10 in VirtualBox took 3 min 45 s. Shutting down took 50 s.
Parameters are: CPU: 5-10%; 8GB RAM Base memory; 6 (of 12) CPUs; display 128MB.
I tried 3D - no difference in speed; but blinking picture.
Windows vdi file is read from classic 2,5" HDD.
I’m going to try to move it to ssd disk and see the difference.
You are only giving 10% to CPU - that is why - give it 100% you have enough power to do so. Only core 2 duo cpus need less than 100%
No. I’m not giving 10%.
It is how much it’s shown in System activity.
I wish it’d consume 95% of CPU for several seconds, but it’s not. 5-10% is just live performance.
Windows 11 or Windows 10? I have VirtualBox 7.0.14. I will try to install and see how it works. It should work fine on 2 CPUs.
I installed Windows 10 on my VirtualBox. Host is an old prodesk mini: Intel i5-6500T (4) @ 3.100GHz. It boots and shutdown pretty fast.
I gave 2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM. But my vms are on SSD. Probably there is the difference or maybe the VirtualBox version is problematic. Or maybe your hdd has some problems?
After moving my data from 2,5" SATA drive to ssd m.2 drive Finally(!!) I have expected speed of running VirtualBox. Now everything takes dozens of seconds.
That’s a good point you experienced 
. Not OK to install vms on HDD.
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