I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to get a Windows 10 VM working successfully on a 2019 5K iMac but it looks as though I am going to have to admit defeat and go back to Parallels. Getting the VM up and running isn't the issue, that was a piece of cake. The problem lay in near constant lockups, especially the minute a browser was fired up. The iMac has 24 gigs of RAM so wasn't short of resources. I think I've tried every permutation possible in Vbox settings and then some but nothing made any difference. CPU 1 core, 2 cores, more than 2. RAM 4 gigs, 8 gigs, 12 gigs, 3D acceleration on 3D off, audio enabled/disabled. The only way it run it was in a very small window which was near impossible to use due to its size. Mac activity monitor showing a massive spike in CPU each time a content rich webpage was accessed e.g. 305%.
Has anyone managed to crack this with similar hardware? I suspect the iMac's 5K screen to be the culprit. BTW Parallels works seamlessly.
Has anyone managed to crack this with similar hardware? I suspect the iMac's 5K screen to be the culprit. BTW Parallels works seamlessly.
