- Exclude Virtual Machine Directories In Your Antivirus.
- Ensure Intel VT-x or AMD-V Is Enabled by checking the BIOS.
- Add more More Memory to the host and VM.
- Allocate More CPU to the VM.
- Put Your Virtual Machines on a SSD drive.
- Remove or reduce snapshots.
- Use separate physical and virtual hard disks – Install VM on a separate hard disk from the Host OS. Also store the paging file or swap partition on a different drive than the host operating system.
- Verify that host and VM networking settings are not impacting the performance of the virtual machine.
- Verify that the host operating system is working properly and is in a healthy state.