Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:28 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: >> 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. > > Yeah. I'm surprised at mine chewing 100%. Whatever is causing that is > probably at the root of all my problems. I wonder how I can go about > discovering why.
You've mentioned that this is a corporate XP install. Which surely includes a virus scanner. Some virus scanners show a really bad effect on the guest performance it total. Especially the on access scanners are of interest in this respect. Try disabling that stuff completely to verify this or rule it out. -- Dr. Klaus Espenlaub innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
