VirtualBox slow on SSD

I recently moved one of my VirtualBox images (running Windows) onto my new laptop. In contrast to my old machine where I was still using old spinning disk technology, my new laptop is configured with a 512GB SSD.

So I was more then surprised that my Windows virtual machine was slow like a snail and it took forever to load a presentation into memory.

The solution was more than simple: In my VirtualBox configuration, I only had to specify that the virtual disk of my operating system was actually running from an SSD.

Now starting the VM and accessing the disk within the VM is blazingly fast.