Super Slow Windows 10 VM

[xthursdayx]

Hi everyone, So I installed a Windows 10 Pro VM on my Unraid system. The VM itself seems to operate fine, with decent speeds, but the mouse is a huge problem. I have to constantly move or wiggle the mouse to get the VM mouse to respond, and there is around a 15 second delay between the movements of my actual cursor and the cursor in the VM, whether I just move it around, or click something. Any ideas how I can fix this? It's making me crazy! Thanks!

 

PS, I already tried the suggestions in the sticky about performance improvements in VMs and CPU pinning with no luck. 

[JonathanM]

Hi everyone, So I installed a Windows 10 Pro VM on my Unraid system. The VM itself seems to operate fine, with decent speeds, but the mouse is a huge problem. I have to constantly move or wiggle the mouse to get the VM mouse to respond, and there is around a 15 second delay between the movements of my actual cursor and the cursor in the VM, whether I just move it around, or click something. Any ideas how I can fix this? It's making me crazy! Thanks!

 

PS, I already tried the suggestions in the sticky about performance improvements in VMs and CPU pinning with no luck.

How are you accessing it? Passthrough, VNC, or RDP?

[xthursdayx]

VNC

[Squid]

After the initial setup where you have to use VNC, switch over to using RDP....  Far, far, far faster

 

(Or alternatively, don't use NoVNC...  actually install a VNC client on the system accessing the VM)

[xthursdayx]

After the initial setup where you have to use VNC, switch over to using RDP....  Far, far, far faster

 

(Or alternatively, don't use NoVNC...  actually install a VNC client on the system accessing the VM)

 

Using RDP makes a marked improvement in speed. Thanks!