Virtual Box problem

[then00b]

Not an overly powerful system to be running virtual machines. You will get some lag with those specs, and I don't foresee great performance when trying to run Windows 8 in a VM with a total of 4gb of ram on the system host.

Oh I see, do you think upgrading my ram will help a lot?

[Valtam]

It may, but I still wouldn't be trying to run VM's on that pc.

[then00b]

It may, but I still wouldn't be trying to run VM's on that pc.

Okay sir thank you for your time!

[Valtam]

You're welcome.

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[m654321]

A tip for running Win8 or 10 in Oracle Virtualbox, that I've discovered tinkering around with  Windows OS guests on Linux hosts ...

Untick the 3D-effects option, when installing either of these OSes as a Virtual Machine, to remove the problem of a flickering graphics display and/or lagginess - it seems that Virtualbox's graphics software has difficulty with the 'metro' desktop of icons & tiles in Win8 & 10.

This display/lag issue doesn't seem to present itself with a Win7 guest, when the 'experimental 3D effect' option is ticked. That said,  I've never found any advantage of having the 3D option ticked, as games wont play and  the 'aero' effect (taskbar transparency) doesn't show in VM ... 

To run VMs well, you'll ideally need a 4-core machine, with dual-threaded CPUs.

Hope this helps
Mike