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Hello All,

I am getting high processor usage on my XP SP3 guests (1 processor, 2048 ram, 64m for graphics) (Host windows 7 Intel 4 core 8 threads I7 1 gig dual SLI Nvidia graphics) I have read lots of posts regarding this, have tried the various options suggested, but it makes no difference.

I switched over from VMware to take advantage of the portability. The virtual machines are actually the original vmxd (VMware) VMs. I have gone through the appropriate conversions, and removed the Vmware tools etc, they run ok in that respect. As a test I ran 2 copies of the same VM one in VB and one in VMware. Checked all the virtual settings to ensure they were the same. The Virtual Box VM takes twice as long to start up, with the processor usage 100%. I ran both machines in tandem and found that while both were running a defrag; the VMware processor usage averaged 4% and the Virtual Box an average of 50% the page files and handles, and memory usage all were about the same.

I would like to stick to the Virtual Box, but need to get the processor usage down to a reasonable and realistic value, as the Virtual Box VM is way too slow to use.

Any more thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Neo

Great well thanks everyone!

Like I always say ; down with open source, its never supported properly

Cheers!
NEO

Use ProcessExplorer t see which services/programs cause the high CPU usage.

1) If VMware (or whatever product) better fills your needs, use VMware (or whatever product). That is basic common sense.

2) Given the utter lack of information provided, there's not much to be said, really. Without telling us how the VM is configured and how the guest is configured, you won't get much more than "hmm, interesting".

3) It might be a good test to try installing XP on VirtualBox from scratch and seeing how it behaves. That would show whether something went wrong with moving the VM from VMware.

NEOS wrote:Great well thanks everyone!

Like I always say ; down with open source, its never supported properly

Like many others always say - garbage in, garbage out...

Its always the same: Some people does not want to pay anything, but want 7/24 support in real time.

stefan.becker wrote:Its always the same: Some people does not want to pay anything, but want 7/24 support in real time.

2 weeks. No response at all, not even single clarifying question.

Stop the Spin Sycle.

N0YB wrote:2 weeks. No response at all, not even single clarifying question.

Stop the Spin Sycle.

Start reading. I explained why you won't get any help given the non-information you provided. That hasn't changed. Others told you how you can try to pinpoint the source of the problem.

You can throw as many tantrums as you want but without providing even the most basic information like the relevant VBox.log, you really won't get anywhere.

michaln wrote:

N0YB wrote:2 weeks. No response at all, not even single clarifying question.

Stop the Spin Sycle.

Start reading. I explained why you won't get any help given the non-information you provided. That hasn't changed. Others told you how you can try to pinpoint the source of the problem.

You can throw as many tantrums as you want but without providing even the most basic information like the relevant VBox.log, you really won't get anywhere.

All after the fact. After 2 weeks the OP'er was already gone by then.