system limitations

I have an iMac model 2006, OSX 10.7.8, 3GB RAM. I recently installed Parallels 8 and, as a guest system, first Windows 7, subsequently upgrading to Windows 8. Well, the result is that the Windows 8 guest is so slow that I can practically forget about it.

Can anybody help me? Is it a question of assigning minimum RAM or hard disk space to Windows 8 or something else which I may have forgotten?

 

i generally run all of my VMs with 1gb of ram allocated to the VM. however i noticed with win8, it was dog slow. increased it to 2gb and now it's fine.

 

4 GB RAM is the recommended minimum for your Mac to have if you want to run Parallels on it. 32 bit Windows 7 or 8 needs a minimum of 1 GB RAM to run smoothly, and the 64 bit versions require 2 GB RAM. OS X itself only works well only with 2 GB RAM minimum. So with 3 GB RAM you are running pretty much on the limits of these OSs for 32 bit Windows, and if you are using the 64 bits versions then forget it.

Note: you don't have OS X 10.7.8, most likely you mean 10.6.8.

Consider upgrading your RAM it will boost the overall performance greatly.

 

Thanks for your help. My system should have read OSX 10.7.5. I am indeed operation on the limit of the configuration and will wait until my new iMac arrives end of the month. As it stood, Windows 8 was that slow that one could forget about it.

Regards