I hate to revive this old thread, but I am having a really tough time running 
2+ VMS (even with VRAM of 300MB each on a host having 2GB real RAM). The main 
problem is that the virtualbox.exe process sucks up 30+% of the CPU on the 
windows 2000 host. This slows down EVERYTHING on the host. Im using vbox 1.5.6 
as there is no easy way to upgrade previously built machines to future versions.

I was planning to use Vbox for 10g RAC/ASM oracle simulation for my team, but 
this is not getting anywhere. The CPU usage is way too much per machine. I have 
dual core intel CPU on the windows host.

-- Thanks
Gaurav


----- 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
>
>
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