I'm new to VM's. I grabbed the book and followed the directions, I don't see why every VM I've tried to set up stutters so badly. I've gone through process monitors and I don't see anything that is anything close to a bottleneck. VM is set up on it's own SSD, and it's host is a quad core xeon 2.5Ghz with 32Gb memory. The original system I want to virtualize is an 8 year old atom 1.6Ghz with 2Gb memory, but at this point the VM can't keep up vs the bare metal atom and I'm still stuck running it.
Are these things supposed to just go dead for about a third of the time they are running? Is that just normal? How does anyone use them for any kind of I/O application like a network gateway or is that just not a use case for a VM? Is there some registry thing I have to flick to tell it to run a specific VM in realtime, and that a 300ms latency every second is unacceptable?