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What would be optimal settings for a Windows 7 VirtualBox VM running on a Macbook Pro?

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Mar 15, 202651620 views
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I am having a hard time coming up with decent performing settings to run my Win7 64-bit VirtualBox VM on my brand new Macbook pro. I've given it 2G memory (out of my 8G total), tried what feels like all combinations of motherboard and processor settings, and yet this VM still runs as slow as a dog.…

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Well, I don't know what I did wrong to begin with, but I deleted the VM and started over with 100% defaults except that I set memory to 2G, harddrive to 60G, and 32MB video memory. Now it's working great, feels as fast as any other Win7 machine I've…

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