Ubuntu Guest, shared clipboard and 100% CPU usage

gudstrand · Post by **gudstrand** » 5. Nov 2008, 19:52

I am new to VirtualBox. Currently I am running a VirtualBox host under Windows XP Pro with a guest OS installation of Ubuntu. I started to notice that one of my cores on the CPU was continuously running at 100% usage for the VBox process.

Reading the forums I found messages indicating that the shared clipboard might be the culprit so I disabled it as suggested. That did the trick.

My question, or concern is this. The messages I saw were referring to VirtualBox 1.54, I am using the latest and greatest 2.04. I would have thought that this issue may have been resolved by now but apparently it has not.

I wanted to check to see if this is a reported issue and whether or not it has been, or is being, addressed. I can live without the shared clipboard but it is handy enough that I would like to see it fixed. Being a newbie I am not sure how to check if it is currently listed as a bug or not. Anyway I can track or follow (or report if it has not been) this issue?

Post by **Sasquatch** » 5. Nov 2008, 21:06

You can check the Trac bug tracking system you can find on the main site. See the Forum FAQ for a link to it.
You can also use Google to look for the issue; use a site filter to limit the results.

Can you also post the link to your source topic? That would help others who have this issue.