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Hello, I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on Virtual Box 4.0.4. And I am noticing some really sad performance... I have installed the latest guest additions, and have no desktop effects enabled. I will list my Host Specs and Guest Specs bellow...

Host PC :

CPU : Pentium 4 Single-Core (2.80GHz)
RAM : 2GB DDR2 1333MHz
HDD : 40GB 7200RPM
Video Card : Nvida Geforce 210
ACPI Enabled? : Yes
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP, SP3

Guest PC :

RAM : 756MB
HDD : 12GB
CPU : Single Core
Video Card : 128MB, Single Moniter, 3D Acceleration On
ACPI Enabled? : No

When I am not running the virtual machine I have 1500Mb Of Ram free, when running the virtual machine I have about 600MB Avaible, that should be enough to run XP on any computer...

I have all updates installed...

I have noticed that my Host PC CPU is really active... always around 85%

My PC isn't overheating... and the only program I have open is a memory cleaner (So I can watch my ram...).

Any Help would be nice.

Look at the log files for the guest/s. At the top it will show you the total RAM and the amount of available RAM.
That will give you a better indication of what is going on. Plus the VirtualBox program uses memory as well as the guest.
You indication of excessive cpu sounds like a lot of swapping is going on.

Umh... I'm noticing that my PC goes from a page file usage of 500MB when not running the VM and goes to 1.35GB when running the VM. I might be swapping, but it stays pretty steady after that.. that probally explains slow boot up times.

As for the logs, they are spitting out tons of errors about the mouse... I will post the log in here =)
But the file is 250kb.. maxium is 128KiB so I'll compress it to zip...

Ok, I've changed my mind. I am going to change Ubuntu from 10.10, to 10.04 LTS. I'll let you guys know if things work out the way there suppose to ...

From the hosts terminal/command window type VBoxManage showvminfo <VM Name> --details and post here. Replace <VM Name> with the actual name of the VM. Use "" if the name has a space in it.

Note if the host is Windows you need to be in the directory that has VBoxManage.exe for the command to work.