Hello everybody,
I'm struggling to create a Windows virtual machine that is fast enough for daily work.
I need to keep that always running with just a couple of software, mostly Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Evernote.
So far, i've made some tests and a couple of reinstallations from scratch but everything is still laggy and slow. Adding a note from Outlook to Evernote could take 5 minutes, to make a search in Evernote causes it to freeze and Outlook takes a life to start and to download some hundreds of new emails.
I'm using Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.3 LTS (64 Bit) with Virtual Box 5.0, Windows 7 Professional (64 Bit), Microsoft Office 2010 on a Intel i5-3210M dual core 2.5 Ghz with 8 Gb of RAM and a 500 Gb IDE hard disk.
On VirtualBox, i've reserved to Windows 2 Gb of RAM, a virtual hard drive of 50 Gb (that is always mostly full), i've set that it can use 2 processors with 90% of execution cap (and PAE/NX), i've enabled hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-v and nested pagination).
Do you have any suggestions?
Should i try to use Windows 10 instead of Windows 7? I don't want to fall back to Windows XP.
Should i try one of those "lite" ISOs you can find on the net? I don't want trouble with drivers, devices and printers.
Or maybe there are some relevant changes i can make to Virtual Box settings? So far, they doesn't seem to have very much impact on performances.
Thank you in advance!
I'm struggling to create a Windows virtual machine that is fast enough for daily work.
I need to keep that always running with just a couple of software, mostly Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Evernote.
So far, i've made some tests and a couple of reinstallations from scratch but everything is still laggy and slow. Adding a note from Outlook to Evernote could take 5 minutes, to make a search in Evernote causes it to freeze and Outlook takes a life to start and to download some hundreds of new emails.
I'm using Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.3 LTS (64 Bit) with Virtual Box 5.0, Windows 7 Professional (64 Bit), Microsoft Office 2010 on a Intel i5-3210M dual core 2.5 Ghz with 8 Gb of RAM and a 500 Gb IDE hard disk.
On VirtualBox, i've reserved to Windows 2 Gb of RAM, a virtual hard drive of 50 Gb (that is always mostly full), i've set that it can use 2 processors with 90% of execution cap (and PAE/NX), i've enabled hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-v and nested pagination).
Do you have any suggestions?
Should i try to use Windows 10 instead of Windows 7? I don't want to fall back to Windows XP.
Should i try one of those "lite" ISOs you can find on the net? I don't want trouble with drivers, devices and printers.
Or maybe there are some relevant changes i can make to Virtual Box settings? So far, they doesn't seem to have very much impact on performances.
Thank you in advance!