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Hi there,

I need Corel Draw 12 for my work, so installed it in my VB (Host Gentoo-Linux). The problem is, that Corel Draw hangs all 1-2min for approx. 3sec, where I can do nothing. After a while of trying (all stuff off in the lower right taskbar, Virus-Scanner, etc.) I saw, that in case of "hanging" the Processor-Load is 100% (Corel-Draw-Process).

Corel Draw is the only, I recognized that "behaviour". An the strange thing is, that I got the same problem with Windows XP & Corel in a VMWare. With Win 2000 the problem didn't happen....

Bastian

Try to give the Guest more RAM.

After a while of testing, buying a new computer, trying with VMware and Virtual-Box here are some new information for the problem:

Now I got a Core2Duo with 4GB RAM (1,5GB for the Virtual Machine). Everything is fine with the processor-load if I start the VirtualBox and start any programs annd work with the.

But if I start Corel-Draw, load a simple (small) document and play around a bit only with a circle or something, the processor-load jumps from 20% to 100% (Corel hangs for 1-2 seconds) and goes back to 20%.

If I use "Top" on my Linux-Machine (Host), I see that the processor-Load for the VirtualBox is very high too. Constantly over 50%, without doing anything, except loading CorelDraw.

I tried the same configuration (VB&Corel) on another machine here in the company and...it was exactly the same.

So I think there is a problem in the "playing together" of Corel 12, VB and Windows XP. I tried it with Windows 2000....no problems in that processor-issue, but Corel crashs frequently, so would like to see the problem fixed.

Perhaps one of the VB-Technicans could install Corel 12 in a Windows-XP-Guest on a Linux-Host...I'm sure he got the same problems.

If Virtualbox is running (without using any application) the Host-Linux shows a processor-Load of constantly 54%. VMware only shows 15-30 %.

Bastian

I, too, have a problem with CorelDraw (Draw 10, specifically) crashing in a VBox virtual machine.

I'm running VBox 1.6.2 in a Linux (Mint5) host, with Windows 2000 in a virtual machine - 10GB drive size, 512 MB RAM.

When zoomed in on a drawing, and scroll, it seizes. It scrolls and scrolls and scrolls and scrolls. The VBox window greys. Keyboard and mouse are ignored. Eventually the scrolling stops, but all I can do is to close the VBox window. This gets me back to the Linux desktop, and everything other than VBox seems to work okay. I cannot reload VBox until after I reboot.

Other than this one problem, everything else seems to work. Of course, the only reason I want to run Windows is to run Draw10.

David Brown wrote:Of course, the only reason I want to run Windows is to run Draw10.

Why not try Wine then?

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... on&iId=440

@ hege

I have an Epson Stylus Pro 3800, that the linuxprinting website describes as a paperweight. I need Windows to print.

Reading the Wine forums about CorelDraw discouraged me to the point of trying almost anything else first.

Dual booting Win2K works 100%, with the inconvenience of having to shut down and reboot to change OS.

Win2K in VBox works 99%. I was hoping (dreaming) for some instructions, sort of what I found to get USB support working, to cure this problem.