It's practically in 'survival mode', which makes it rely on other resources liek CPU and storage more instead of having things cached. (Running desktop distributions of Windows 10 on under 4GB of ram is qualitatively different (literally triggers some different code paths) than running it on 4 or more. So, for your case I would use the following specifications:

Windows 10/11 really cares about two things, storage speed, and available RAM (at least up to 8GB). Then you will be able to switch the 'controller' providing your existing virtual harddrive from SATA to Virtual I/O Device SCSI. AFAIK virtio drivers are not included in virtualbox extensions for windows yet, so you should install them separately, by mounting the iso from Fedora project. I have VMware V16 on a Windows 10 Host (all different than you), fast SSD drive and 16 GB of memory. (B) high performing virtual machines usually need an SSD drive. (A) try a different virtualizing app like VMware.

I would check that the appropriate storage driver is used. 8,659 20 81 148 1 My suggestions will be a bit hard to implement so just suggestions.

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