I have the same problem with both hosts: win xp and Fedora 7. Running the guest and doing any useful kind of work on the guest, especially when doing disk io and/or net io, it sucks up from 70 to 100% of my amd64 3700+ cpu. This is my experience with VB 1.5.x and the current 1.6.
JD de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Hello, > > I have vbox-1.6 installed on a Windows XP host and a linux gentoo guest > fully functional. More often than not, VirtualBox.exe suddenly takes up > 98% of the CPU usage. The Windows machine becomes very slow and I have > to shutdown the linux guest, quit vbox, wait for the CPU usage return > not normal and start everything from the beginning. > > Is there a fix for this or a reason for this sudden race? > > Thanks, > > -- > Valmor > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
