virtualbox high cpu

[Jarod Wilson]

On May 25, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Eric Chadbourne <eric-yrHdaQSNc4gdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> hi all.
>
> 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
> suggestion about recompiling the guest kernel and to select a timer
> frequency of 100Hz.  here's an example of virtualbox using 50% of the
> cpu while centos isn't really doing anything.

I've seen the same running centos 5 as a virtualbox guest atop a  
Fedora host. No such issue with vbox+fedora guest or vmware+any guest...

--jarod