Heavy CPU load on host with a linux guest

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xpech
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Joined: 13. Oct 2010, 16:43
Primary OS: Mac OS X Leopard
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Linux,WinXP3

Heavy CPU load on host with a linux guest

Post by xpech »

Hi,

for a legacy reason, I've created a Fedora Core 3 (yes 3!) guest on my up-to-date OSX Vbox. The virtual machine takes at least 40% of a cpu without any running process. Even after shutdown (system halted) VirtualBox use +40% of one core. The box is very slow... (15min of compilation in this guest, 4min in the host.)

My other guest (XP3, Debian ..) runs fine. So, is there a magic switch for this old linux ?

The special config I do to get it work is the PATA controller for the hard disk.

thanks a lot.
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