Dear Daniel Thanks for that. I was not sure what this meant but I thought I would have a look. So I went to View > Details > IDE Disk 1 > Advanced Options > the Disk bus was set to IDE with two other options to select of SCSI and USB. Am I already IDE drivers or is your advice about some other setting? Thanks and wait to hear Stephen On 9 August 2014 15:08, Daniel Huhardeaux <tech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 09/08/2014 14:54, stephen constantinou a écrit : >> >> Dear All >> >> I am a refugee from Virtual Box, which I have used a lot on Linux >> hosts to run windows XP then 7. Recently, I had reason to reinstall >> Linux and chose to reinstall VB as well. However, installation of >> Windows 7 failed and I have posted support requests to the message >> board. However, I have not received any replies. >> >> So after a lot of looking around I decided to try Virtual Machine Manager >> 0.9.5. >> >> I have managed to install Windows 7 but installation was very slow. >> Windows 7 runs very slow as well. I am concerned I have missed >> something or done something wrong. >> >> I am using Kubuntu 14.04, 32Bit host with 4GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD, >> and Virtual Machine Manager 0.9.5, and Windows 7 guest. I have >> allocated 1024 MB RAM and 50 GB HDD to the guest. >> >> Any help appreciated > > > Hi Stephen, > > had same problem with w7 and solve it by using IDE drivers instead of > virtio's one. > > > -- > Daniel > TOOTAi Networks > > _______________________________________________ > virt-tools-list mailing list > virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
