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Virtual Machine slow on Windows

Trollvant
By Trollvant
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Hi,

I am currently trying to run Virtual Machines (VirtualBox/VMware) on my Windows 10 laptop. However, when running a certain Linux Distro (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Kali etc.) everything runs, but very slow. I've tried everything in the VMware or VirtualBox settings (assigning more/less RAM, VRAM, CPU cores), but nothing helps. Virtualization in BIOS is ON. Also, I installed dual-boot on my laptop because of this problem and when I try to run a VM on it, it runs completely fine. What could be the problem? I also tried to run VM on a laptop from 2010 with Windows 10 and it works fine without slowdown. 

Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.60-3.50Ghz
RAM: 8 GB DDR4 SODIMM
Storage: 256 GB SSD & 1 TB HDD
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M 4GB
 

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Atleast with Manjaro, it is the issue of hardware acceleration not being passed into the VM. I would imagine this is the case with all of them.

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Uggg... it I remember this correctly: 

apt-get update
apt-get install --install-recommends linux-virtual
apt-get install linux-tools-virtual linux-cloud-tools-virtual

This should change the kernel for one optimized for running as a VM. But on the other hand it looks like the kernel isn't any differnt... but it's worth a shot!

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