Tips for setting up VirtualBox?

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@Intaris wrote:

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@Gregory wrote:

Thanks all, I followed Intaris' suggestion of getting rid of the green turtle. It seems like different things work for different people. What did it for me was following the directions in this post to turn off virtualization based security.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=547662#p547662

The VM is very snappy now, thank you!

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The "Different things work for different people" is why I didn't provide any actual links. It seems to be a bit of black magic working out what works on any given system. Glad you got it working.

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Same with VmWare actually. Hyper-V and all that stuff generally makes the VMs terribly laggy and useless. And yes here too it depends on hardware, CPU, OS, VmWare version, the weather and the moon phase, what change will actually get you a decent performance. Black magic indeed!