I have an XP partition on my hard drive which I've successfully managed to boot with vbox 1.5.6 on Ubuntu Gutsy.
There seem to be numerous problems though. The biggest is the sluggishness and CPU hungryness of it. It constantly consumes 100% of one of my 2.2GHz cores and the most menial of tasks take a long time to process. The mouse cursor even gets "stuck" during what are pretty smooth and responsive mouse movements, which appears to be simple lack of CPU cycles to process the movement. Probably the biggest issue of sluggishness is the 10s of minutes it takes to progress from the WindowsXP startup splash screen to being able to log on. Secondly, I don't seem to get Mouse Integration. I have installed the Guest Additions, and I can set higher video resolutions so I know the VBox video driver is loaded (Device Manager tells me so as well). Device Manager only sees a PS/2 mouse though. I'm not sure if it should be using a VBox specific mouse driver or not. Any ideas on any of those issues? Surely you will want more info. Just let me know what I can supply. b.
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