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I have virtualbox 1.5.6 OSE installed on Ubuntu hardy heron and when ever I start it, it completely slows down my system. I have to restart to have to use the system again. As it is now, I can't use virtualbox. What could be going wrong pls?

Its your turn.

My Crystal Bowl does not see your hardware.

As Stefan said, more info is needed. See the Forum Posting Guide for what we need. At least we need Host Hardware and Guest Settings.

it could be that you are assigning too much RAM to your VM and your host is out of resources... swap memory is slow...

without more info, that's the best I can do for you

VB should not use swap or other virtual memory resources. Only physical ram get's allocated. With too much RAM in use by your Host, VB would spill an error stating it can't allocate the RAM for the Guest and would pause the Guest system (or not even start it).

Even though the guest system isn't utilizing the host's swap memory, it may be occupying so much of the host's ram that the host itself is constantly paging memory in and out of swap, dramatically slowing the host.

Thanks all for helping out. The problem was as a result of allocating too much memory to the VM.