On Wednesday 27 February 2008 at 10:57 am, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] XP guest sluggish and eating all CPU"
> Hrm. Are you running from a real partition or from a virtual disk? If > the former, did you install WinXP using the host or did you install in a > vbox guest? I know you didn't ask me but in case you do .... :) ... I'm using a VDI. > > Out of curiosity, how much memory did you allocate to the vm? > > 512MB and 32MB of video. How much RAM does the host have? For my VM, I'm using the default 8MB of video. I believe in the docs it says there's not much to gain in cranking up the video RAM. My VM uses minimal disk. In your VM's task bar, any memory hungry drives running? It sounds like your VM is swapping. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Toll free: 888.459.1926 Fax: 603.720.7723 (US) Text Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
