Dismal windows 7 perofrmance as guest

[MoonRise]

I use VBox with WIN7. I don't seem to have issues. What issues exactly? I have 4 GB RAM set for it with video set at 256MB. Also 1 Processor. Now, I can't play any games. I've never been able to do that with any VM.

[SteveRiley]

Try http://paste.kde.org then. I'm quite certain that your performance problems aren't related to the video memory size. Emulated graphics aren't nearly as sophisticated as that from hardware; 128 MB is the typical max that you'll see in most VM software.

[vsreeser]

It won't allow me to use pastenim since it is an xml file. I believe the problem to be that I can only set video to 128Mb. Looking around to see if there is another vm osftware that will allow more. host video card is 2Gb. Looked into qemu. It won't allow me to set video but also won't allow me to use more than 4Gb for guest memory. There is a reason I have 16Gb on the host! Grrrrr. Will keep looking. any suggestions

[vsreeser]

I wlll do that if still having problems. had some hard drive errors, so I saved important docs, pics, etc and did a nuke and pave

[SteveRiley]

Please upload the contents of the relevant .vbox file to Ubuntu's Pastebin and follow up here with the URL. Let's take a look at how you've set up the VM.

[kubicle]

installed on the guest. and I updated additions before on host before installing on the guest

And the version of the additions match your vbox version (I'm asking because your original post you mentioned switching back to 4.3.12?)

Unfortunately I don't run Windows guests myself, so I can't offer much in the way of troubleshooting the performance on those.

[vsreeser]

installed on the guest. and I updated additions before on host before installing on the guest

[kubicle]

Installed virtualbox additions

Did you install the right version of guest additions for your virtualbox?
And did you also install them on the guest system (and not just the guest additions package on the host system)?

[vsreeser]

Running Kubuntu 14.04, uodated yesterday, virtualbox 4.3.12 (4.3.14 blew up). Host has 16Gb ram, 16Gb swap (rarely used but I have the space). vms are on a 500Gb exFAT partition. . Guest is windows 7 professional. allocated 225 Gb hard drive, 8192 Ram and max video (128). Installed virtualbox additions. I can now go to 1920x1080 on guest. Have 2 monitors so that is why I would want to go that high. The performance is bad. Anything I can do to speed this up? Trying to not have to dual boot. Would I gain performance by moving to another vm software? If so, which one. Have used vmWare in the past. Have not tried anything else recently.
Windows experience in vm has video at 1. It is 4.3 in straight windows. I was hoping to get at least half (2.1) Any other info you need?