Hi; A few days ago I posted this:
> >>>>>>>> I've installed the recently announced 3.2.0 stable release but I > >>>>>>>> see that, > >>>>>>>> after installing its companion guest additions on a Win XP SP3 > >>>>>>>> guest, VBoxService.exe hits 99% of CPU usage all the time!. I > >>>>>>>> doesn't even go down to 97 or 98. It stays fixed at 99% on the > >>>>>>>> performance monitor. After about 15 minutes of the VM on (without > >>>>>>>> doing anything on it), VBox aborts the machine. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> The host also suffers with this. With the earlier GA (BETA1) and > >>>>>>>> an idle VM, Host CPU hovers around 8% (11% peaks). With the new GA > >>>>>>>> and an idle VM, it sticks to 37% (40% peaks) CPU usage. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> The same thing happened with VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA2/3 but > >>>>>>>> NOT with VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA1 or any earlier GA!, with > >>>>>>>> GA BETA1, VBox works perfectly, so I reverted back to it until this > >>>>>>>> issue is cleared. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> System: FBSD 8-STABLE (updated weekly) amd64 Well, now I've tested on a Win7 guest and the results were almost the same, except that after leaving the VM running for 45 minutes, it didn't abort like the XP guest. Reinstalling VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA1 solves the problem on both XP and win7 guests. I'm using virtualbox-ose-devel-3.2.1.r29799, but it doesn't matter. On any GA newer than 3.2.0_BETA1, VBoxService.exe behaves the same way. Am I the only one seeing this? Should I send this to vbox-dev? Thanks, -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winfoes FREE) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
