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How to make VM faster?

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So I got a windows VM to work on virtualbox, and it's pretty slow. Is there anyway to make it faster besides increasing the allocated ram and cpu cores?

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Install Guest editions. It will make everything run soooooo better, and allow you to fullscreen.

 

From the manual: The VirtualBox Guest Additions for all supported guest operating systems are provided as a single CD-ROM image file which is called VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. This image file is located in the installation directory of VirtualBox. To install the Guest Additions for a particular VM, you mount this ISO file in your VM as a virtual CD-ROM and install from there.

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Faster storage makes all the difference 

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough it will be believed.

-Adolf Hitler 

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52 minutes ago, legopc said:

Faster storage makes all the difference 

As above, this is almost always the cause of VM slowness for the general masses. Move the VM to an SSD and you'll notice a huge difference, failing that an HDD that is not also you main system disk.

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