Windows 7 virtualbox vm

Mar 2, 3, 25 Did you install the guest machine extensions? If I forget to install them on my test vm I sometimes experience delays like that. Mushkins Golden Member. Feb 11, 1, 0 0. What else do you have running on your rig? If you're pushing it with a bunch of other stuff or multiple VMs you might not have the resources to allocate for virtualbox which could cause the slowness.

Yeah the guest additions are installed. Tried this on multiple machines and it's always the same experience. I've had 7 production VMs running off that array before with no issues, though it was mostly Linux and Windows server Right now there's only 2 VMs running and they don't really do much IO. Red Squirrel said:.

Yeah they're both enabled 2D and 3D acceleration. I unchecked them and it's slightly better but still bloody slow. Also it's not activated, does that matter?

I'm trying to get it activated but it's just unusably slow. There are no other VMs on that raid 10 so it has it all to itself. According to stuff I'm finding on Google lot of people have this slowness issue running 7 in a VM but there are no answers.

Fully allocated. I set it to 15GB. I managed to activate it, and now I'm installing Firefox, but I just have an hour glass that's been there for the past 5 minutes. Nothing is usuable and even the simplest of task like getting the right click menu takes several minutes. Then it jumps and goes fast for a while, then slow again. It's still at expanding files. There seem to be something with the windows 7 engine and vms that don't act well together.

I don't see any signs of IO starvation on the storage server, though I'm not really sure how to look. So I don't know if there's a better command I can use to measure IO. Well, VirtualBox does have a disk activity indicator. Also, Process Explorer in either the guest or host OS can shed some light on disk access. Right now, I'm leaning towards two things.

Have you tried copying the virtual disk to a local, non-RAID disk and testing out a local run just to rule that out as a possible problem? Have not tried locally yet but will try that after. This one may in fact work though, the other VM was slow from the get go, and this one seems fairly usable. I'll wait and see what happens.

I wonder if it's some kind of process in Windows that causes that. The disk activity indicator is always flashing though, so seems 7 may be an IO intensive OS compared to others, maybe I was just tipping the raid 5 over the edge. Mar 2, 1, 0 0. New VM is getting slow too, though not as bad as the other. I guess 7 is just that much more of a heavyweight OS so it needs more resources. It was probably designed for SSDs in mind so raid 10 with 4 drives just barely cuts it when you add the overhead of being in a VM.

Apr 8, 3 Red Squirrel's signature said:. TerryMathews Lifer. Oct 9, 11, 2 0. Ketchup Elite Member. Then, under Attributes , select the disk icon. Browse the location of your Windows 7 ISO.

Press OK. When the virtual machine boots, select your keyboard language and continue. Hit Install Now , then accept the licensing agreement. On the next page, select Custom , then select the virtual disk image drive created earlier. After that, the Windows 7 installation process will start. Go and make a cup of tea because this can take a moment. After the installation process completes, your Windows 7 virtual machine will restart automatically.

Windows 7 will restart a few times during the installation process. It is nothing to worry about. Do not touch a key when prompted or you will return to the Install Now option, rather than letting the installer do its thing.

Eventually, you will arrive at the Windows 7 Username set up, followed by the password creation page. Next up is to input your Windows 7 product key. If you already input your product key and downloaded Windows 7 direct from Microsoft, you might not encounter this page. If you do not have a Windows 7 product key now, you can skip this page, but your Windows 7 virtual machine will have limited functionality.

VirtualBox Guest Additions give your virtual machine better mouse pointer integration, the use of shared files between the host and the client, better video support, shared clipboards, and a host of other handy tools.

Microsoft shut off Windows 7 life support on 14 January Some companies, products, and services have no choice but to continue using Windows 7. But if you're a home user who is clinging to Windows 7 because it is familiar, the end-of-life date for Windows 7 has come and gone, and you should no longer use this antiquated and potentially dangerous operating system.

Windows 7's end of life is fast approaching. Select the position where your virtual disk file will be created and designate the size of your virtual disk.

A Windows 7 virtual machine is created and you can see it on the VirtualBox Manager window. It is noted that your virtual machine just created is not installed operating system, therefore, you need to install an operating system for it. In the above step, you have just declared a virtual machine on the VirtualBox. Now, you need to install an operating system for it. OK, at this time, the operating system starts being installed.

If you are familiar with the installation of windows operating system, this is very simple. Enter password and hint.