> > I do find that VirtualBox uses some CPU% when the guest Linux is idle.
To have minimal CPU usage in VirtualBox, you can use a lightweight window manager like openbox or awesome instead of Gnome or KDE. In this way, you can use linux for pure programming and Mac for desktop apps. I think virtual OSs still have some issues in dealing with low-priority background processes which are common in a full desktop environment like KDE and Gnome. You can also hunt which background process is using the CPU by killing them one by one and check CPU usage when Linux is idle. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
