On Tuesday 01 June 2010 12:29:03 Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Saturday 29 May 2010, Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Thursday 27 May 2010 06:34:05 Frank Mehnert wrote: > > > On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Mario Lobo wrote: > > > > > >>>>>>>> after installing its companion guest additions on a Win XP > > > > > >>>>>>>> SP3 guest, VBoxService.exe hits 99% of CPU usage all the > > > > > >>>>>>>> time!. I > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > How did you compile the OSE version, any special configure flags? > > > Can you post your LocalConfig.kmk? > > [...] > > Actually the information I was missing is that your host system is FreeBSD. > > > The problem is NOT dependent (I guess) on the version of virtualbox > > (3.1.6 or 3.2.0 BETA/BETA1/BETA2/BETA3,3.2.0 stable, 3.2.1r29799 tested), > > but on which version of VBoxGuestAdditions.iso I use to install guest > > additions on the windows guest. > > > > ANY version of VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA1.iso (or prior), combined > > with ANY of the above virtualbox versions, the problem doesn't happen. > > > > It seems to me that something was changed inside the guest additions iso > > image from VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA1.iso to > > VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA2 .iso and newer, that caused this to > > happen. > > That's right. The bug was fixed some days ago. In short the problem is > that VBoxService.exe from the 3.2.0 additions goes maniac if it cannot > initialize the guest control service. This service is disabled on FreeBSD > hosts, therefore the problem. A workaround is to enable > > VBOX_WITH_GUEST_CONTROL > > in the LocalConfig.kmk. That feature was just enabled for FreeBSD in trunk. > > Kind regards, > > Frank >
Yes ! I confirm that this really solves the problem !! Thank you, Frank. -- 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
