Windows 2000 Server 200% CPU load at host side

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edvl
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Primary OS: Debian Lenny
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Guest OSses: Windows 2008 Server, XP Sp3

Windows 2000 Server 200% CPU load at host side

Post by edvl »

Hello,

i have converted a Windows 2000 Server 32 Bit with 2 Cores.
Host has Debian 64 Bit wit a Core i7 930 CPU.
After starting the guest with 2 virtual CPUs, the CPU at hostside is going to 200%. The guest is running with 2 % (Taskmanager).
After changing the HAl to a single CPU, the hostside CPU load is going down to 4 % when guest is idle.
If i change the guest HAL back to multicore, the CPU load at host side is back to 200%.

What can i do?
Other device drivers for windows 2000 server?
Some registry changes?

Thanks
MarkCranness
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Joined: 10. Oct 2009, 06:27
Primary OS: MS Windows 7
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Windows Server 2008 R2; Ubuntu 11.04; Windows 2000 Server; Windows XP

Re: Windows 2000 Server 200% CPU load at host side

Post by MarkCranness »

Not much can be done, except add details of your setup (VirtualBox.xml, machine.xml, VBox.log file) to this bug report :
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4392
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