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[AlienZzzz]

why.

i use VirtualBox 2.1.51_OSE r1/623

VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.51_OSE
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Name: Parent
Guest OS: Windows XP
UUID: a3717835-e50d-4c0b-91c5-3999f4fe0470
Config file: /usr/wm/box/box/Parent/Parent.xml
Memory size: 512MB
VRAM size: 36MB
Boot menu mode: message and menu
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: on
PAE: on
Time offset: 0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Nested Paging: on
VT-x VPID: off
State: running (since 2009-03-10T22:05:01.343000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: on
Floppy: empty
IDE Controller: PIIX4
Primary master: /usr/wm/box/disk/Parent.vdi (UUID: 0f717c93-8862-4b52-a754-a1d6201c0ece)
DVD: /usr/wm/iso/XPVLP3_EN.iso (UUID: b9722d21-d924-4629-852d-95b02eabf352)
NIC 1: MAC: 080027BE40B7, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'eth0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
NIC 5: disabled
NIC 6: disabled
NIC 7: disabled
NIC 8: disabled
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
Audio: disabled (Driver: Unknown, Controller: Unknown)
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
Video mode: 640x480x32
Shared folders: <none>

VRDP Connection: not active
Clients so far: 0

Guest:

Statistics update: disabled

processor 100 % (

Debian - Linux Debian-40-etch-64-minimal 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 10:07:11 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[TerryE]

Guest OS: Windows XP
Memory size: 512MB
VRAM size: 36MB
IOAPIC: on
PAE: on

Why have you selected IOAPIC and PAE? Those are not defaults for XP. Also I suspect that you are not running the basic single CPU NTKRNL. These three combine to slug performance.