XP Guest Suddenly Running Poorly
I have had my Windows XP VM for about a year or two now, and I use it to use some old software and such. It has always ran perfectly. Though, I just opened it now and it's almost unusable. Even the screen that shows the loading bar took like 5 seconds to load, it was like a slideshow fading in slowly. And the same was the case for the login, it took almost a minute. Inside the machine, it's sluggish, and things barely work.
My host machine specs are here:
Ryzen 7 5800X3D
32 GB DDR4
RX 7900 XTX
And I run the VM off of a SATA SSD
These specs have not changed since I last used the VM.
I do not have Hyper-V on.
I have 4GB of RAM, 1 processor with 2 cores, 40 GB harddisk, I have 3D Acceleration on (again, this was not changed since the last time.) and VMWare tools is installed.
The only thing of note, is when I opened the VM it told me that I have Side Channel mitigations enabled for hyper-v, and said it could cause performance issues. I disabled this option and it did not change anything. It has also never brought this up at any point prior.