On 03/18/2010 01:42 AM, Mark Cranness wrote: > On 18 March 2010 20:08, JD<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> For Windows guests, use VirtualBox 3.1.4, or turn off any Windows >>> firewall in the guest. >>> >> I do not have IO ACPI enabled. Host is FC12 x86. >> Guest is windows XP Pro installation CD. >> So I am trying to install it on a physical vdk. >> Output of top shows almost 90% of cpu being used by VB. >> > One suggestion I forgot: Make sure you have the Guest Additions > installed in the guest. > Other than that, I don't know... >
I am presently installing win xp pro on a 16GB physical flash disk via VBox. The virtual machine rebooted and windows is continuing the installation. Here is a snapshot of output of top: top - 13:15:07 up 3:43, 2 users, load average: 4.83, 4.71, 4.48 Tasks: 168 total, 2 running, 166 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 57.3%us, 42.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2062360k total, 2002344k used, 60016k free, 73628k buffers Swap: 8385924k total, 39436k used, 8346488k free, 176144k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5783 jd 20 0 1458m 1.1g 40m S 24.6 54.3 13:45.49 VirtualBox 5745 jd 20 0 69788 17m 8608 R 22.7 0.9 12:35.25 VirtualBox 1864 jd 9 -11 159m 3748 2628 S 19.8 0.2 25:31.09 pulseaudio 2456 jd 20 0 701m 178m 14m S 12.5 8.9 31:55.55 firefox This is a great improvement which I cannot account for anything that I did since I reported the cpus load issue. I am still on fc12 and VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.4_57640_fedora12-1.i686 Hope it stays this way :) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Vbox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Vbox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
