[SOLVED] Extremely Slow Oracle VM Virtualbox Windows 11

[Arturovski]

Hi,
I've been having problems installing windows 11 virtual machine on Oracle Virtualbox because of the extreme lag and slowness of the thing. I've given it all the resources it could possibly need and still the lag is unbearable.
When trying to install windows 11, the loading icon lags like crazy, it needs a full minute to complete one cycle and I have to wait 30 minutes for the next installation screen. After installing for 5 hours it showed a message that windows is not installed and I should try again.
My specs are: Ryzen 5 1600X, 24GB RAM, Radeon RX560 4GB, running the VM on a separate NVMe SSD, C disk of the host is an SSD.
I've given the VM: six CPU cores, 16 GB RAM.
I've tried all options and none seem to fix it. The same extreme lag happens with Windows 7 and 10 as well, however Linux works just fine... IDK anymore...

 

[Colif]

how much space does vm have?
which version of virtualbox?

maybe Hyper V settings? - https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=104887

I am not sure version 6.1 actually supports tpm yet so installing 11 might be difficult - https://www.xda-developers.com/add-...rtualbox-parallels-desktop-hyperv/#virtualbox

 

[Arturovski]

Now I've really tried everything...
First, yes Hyper-V is enabled and I probably didn't want to disable it because Windows Sandbox doesn't work without it for some reason, however nothing works to disable it.
I have this problem: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-windows-features-on-or-off-blank , but the solution is Command Prompt or PowerShell, however it doesn't even register the command that I type in. I've tried system restore, all disk and system cleanups and checkups, nothing.
Following this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...ent/virtualization-apps-not-work-with-hyper-v ,
nothing works... (Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature : The specified package is not valid Windows package).
I followed your link (https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=104887), and this one too https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=99390 .
Followed every step, it really describes my issue, the turtle icon or just the virtualization icon that shows the machine is extremely slow.
The logs contain this: HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM: AMD-V is not available, which does mean either Hyper-V is enabled and using AMD-V or the feature is disabled entirely (although I don't think this is the case because it's enabled in the BIOS and Task Manager says Virtualization is Enabled).
Clueless of what to try next I'll simply give up trying. Thanks for the links and all, but I really don't see the point in doing more to solve this.
If there's any free cloud VM alternatives, let me know cause I'd like to mess around with that a bit : )

 

[TerryLaze]

, running the VM on a separate NVMe SSD,

How does this show up in the VM settings? If it shows it to the VM as an nvme drive then you will have to slipstream nvme drivers into your installation media for it to recognize it properly.
It probably uses some archaic fall back method to access the drive right now making it super slow.

 

[Colif]

I have this problem: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-windows-features-on-or-off-blank , but the solution is Command Prompt or PowerShell, however it doesn't even register the command that I type in. I've tried system restore, all disk and system cleanups and checkups, nothing.

is that in actual install or a VM?

 

[Arturovski]

is that in actual install or a VM?

Actual install, it doesn't have to do with the VM, it's my computer.

 

[Arturovski]

How does this show up in the VM settings? If it shows it to the VM as an nvme drive then you will have to slipstream nvme drivers into your installation media for it to recognize it properly.
It probably uses some archaic fall back method to access the drive right now making it super slow.

Alright, I've downloaded the ISO file again and moved the VM to my C disk, also an SSD, but SATAIII.
It installed flawlessly and very fast. Looking at the VM system monitor, it didn't show it was struggling anymore.
I guess the NVMe SSD was the problem, but why does Linux run fine on it? Probably because it is more lightweight than Windows...
Anyway, thanks a lot!

 

[TerryLaze]

I guess the NVMe SSD was the problem, but why does Linux run fine on it? Probably because it is more lightweight than Windows...
Anyway, thanks a lot!

Different OS different drivers that are supported out of the box or maybe the fail safe method is just better than whatever windows uses.