Greg Knight <lyn...@...> writes: > > So, I'm having a high CPU utilization problem. My XP Pro guest is > running at ~50% CPU at idle on my Ubuntu 9.04 host. > > I found one bizarre solution to this, which is: Create another guest > (without an OS - hell, without a disk seems to work too) and boot it. > Leave the guest on the "FATAL: No bootable medium found!" screen. > VirtualBox's idle CPU utilization goes to <10%. Close the "fake" guest > and CPU util pops back up to 50%. I got the idea from some website which > I can't seem to find anymore. > > I was wondering if there's perhaps a cleaner solution to this? I've > tried changing the proc affinity via taskset, but that had no effect. > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Greg >
Hello, Thanks for the hint. I was able to reproduce this on my Mac OS X host. Creating a dummy VM brought the CPU utilization down from 40-50% to 20-25%. Unfortunately, creating another dummy VM didn't bring it down any further. Have you found a better solution for this? Regards, Karim _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
