Windows 8 lags in VirtualBox... any solution?

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Hi

I installed the DP on a virtual machine (Oracle VirtualBox), but it's quite laggy.

I've given it 1GB RAM and 128MB video memory.

Anyone in my position?
 
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OK, I wouldn't say that was the universal conclusion.
Win7 on a IBM ThinkPad R51 with 512MB of Ram works perfectly fine.
Win8 DP on the Same Machine works extremely well.
I see no problem in it working fine on a VM of higher specs than this machine, but, yet as in your case we have seen this happen.
The-Prophecy says "If you have the virtualization instruction set active (or present) in your CPU, it actually is close to what you actually tell it to run with", I still have to disapprove, running an OS on a machine is always different from running it on a simulated machine environment.
Win8 DP seems to know this in your case has it's AI working well :).
The way a VM will work on XP is certainly very different from the way a VM will work...

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Thanks. That was something that I had in mind. I guess I'll just have to cope with the lag until I upgrade to 7. :)
 
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