Sharepoint 2013 Dev Machine Setup

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to setup a sharepoint 2013 dev environment on an azure virtual machine. I'm struggling with two major problems:
1. The visual studio 2013 takes very long to start.
2. The sharepoint performance could be better.
I'm using the A4 standard tier machine size (8 cores 14gb ram).
I know connecting more than one disks helps (500 iops per disk, right?), but that didn't improved the issues above too much.
Any tunning tips? Configuration advices?

Thanks in advance!