virtualbox high cpu

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/25/2009 05:01 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> hi all.
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> anybody running redhat / fedora as a guest on xp and experiencing very =

> high usage of the cpu?  if yes how did you fix it?  in the docs i see a=
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> suggestion about recompiling the guest kernel and to select a timer=20
> frequency of 100Hz.  here's an example of virtualbox using 50% of the=20
> cpu while centos isn't really doing anything.=20
> http://newmag.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/vbox_pig.png
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I have Windows Xp and Fedora 10 running as guests on Ubuntu 9.04 and=20
vbox 2.2 with no problems, but I don't run it heavily. My processor is=20
an AMD Turion 64 sincle CPU without the V flag.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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