Mailing List Archive: mouse very sluggish in Virtualbox

mouse very sluggish in Virtualbox

Apr 10, 2021, 5:41 PM

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I have: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
and I don't know if this is the problem with Graphic integrated CPU or Virtualbox-6.1.16-r1

I run Windows 7 in Virtualbox and browsing file manager files in Windows is very slow. Sometime I click on a file and have to wait second or two before file is highlighted.

Gentoo is running normally and respond normally.
I run same Windows 7 in Virtualbox on: AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core Processor and browsing file is more responsive.

Re: mouse very sluggish in Virtualbox [ In reply to ]

gtaylor at gentoo

Apr 10, 2021, 7:45 PM

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On 4/10/21 6:41 PM, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I have: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics and I don't know if
> this is the problem with Graphic integrated CPU or Virtualbox-6.1.16-r1
>
> I run Windows 7 in Virtualbox and browsing file manager files in
> Windows is very slow. Sometime I click on a file and have to wait
> second or two before file is highlighted.
>
> Gentoo is running normally and respond normally. I run same Windows
> 7 in Virtualbox on: AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core Processor and browsing
> file is more responsive.

Make sure that you have the guest additions installed and that the VM
(shells) are configured the same way.

I've frequently had poor response and / or missed mouse clicks as a
result of not having the guest additions installed.

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Grant. . . .
unix || die

Re: mouse very sluggish in Virtualbox [ In reply to ]

thelma at sys-concept

Apr 10, 2021, 8:21 PM

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On 4/10/21 8:45 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 4/10/21 6:41 PM, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> I have: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics and I don't know if this is the problem with Graphic integrated CPU or Virtualbox-6.1.16-r1
>>
>> I run Windows 7 in Virtualbox and browsing file manager files in Windows is very slow. Sometime I click on a file and have to wait second or two before file is highlighted.
>>
>> Gentoo is running normally and respond normally. I run same Windows 7 in Virtualbox on: AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core Processor and browsing file is more responsive.
>
> Make sure that you have the guest additions installed and that the VM (shells) are configured the same way.
>
> I've frequently had poor response and / or missed mouse clicks as a result of not having the guest additions installed.

It turn out it I had under setting: Display --> Video Memory set to min. 32MB
Setting it all the way to 128MB solved the problem.