On Wednesday 27 February 2008 at 12:22 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] XP guest sluggish and eating all CPU"
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:01 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > > > I'll second what Rance wrote. I'm running an XP guest on my openSUSE > > 10.3 host. It works very well: smooth and crisp. Bootup is faster > > than W2K. Although I normally save the VM's state. > > > > My VM has 512MB out of 3G of host RAM. > > OK. Can either you or Rance report, does an idle WinXP guest result > in a VirtualBox process chewing 100% of CPU/core all of the time? Thought I'd mentioned it already ... no worries. I have two machines: a desktop and a duo core laptop. On both machines, at idle, the VM uses about 4-6% of the CPU. Cheers, -pablo Desktop ======= P4/3GHz Laptop ====== T7700 - 2 x 2.4GHz `top' snip on Desktop ===================== Here's a snippet from my Desktop. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 31634 pablo 15 0 621m 565m 16m S 4 18.6 0:08.93 VirtualBox On my laptop, I've turned off the tickless kernel option. Running a tickless kernel, on a resumption (s2ram/s2disk) the VM would eat about 40% of a processor. -- 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
