I., too, have seen the same behaviour with VB v1.56 on a Centos v5.0 host. I switched to vmware server v1.04 but performance is only marginally better. CPU utilization spikes to 100% when 3 or more VMs are running eventhough the server is running dual core CPU with 4GB RAM.
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Gaurav Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Definitely a problem that needs to be fixed. > > Will someone from the virtualbox development speak up on this? > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: VirtualBox end user list <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:19:53 PM > Subject: Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > -- Regards, Conrad Lawes
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