problem with virtualbox high cpu vm with w2012

[n04h]

hello ,

i have a problem with virtualbox. when i run a vm with w2012 the cpu is so high 35-60% ( only one virtual machine). the characteristics of the vm is:

• 2048 MB of Ram
• VT-x/AMD-v
• Nested paging
• PAE/NX and hyper -V Paravirtualization
• video memory 128 MB
• graphics controller VBoxSVGA
• acceleration 3D

i'm using linux mint 19 like a host ( the system is updated & i installed the nvidia drivers). what should i do ?

thank you so much

[socratis]

Before I forget... Do not chop your VBox.log in two pieces. Just ZIP the VBox.log. It helps you, it helps us, it helps the server, it helps save a (virtual) tree or two...

So, please edit your message, delete the two parts, and post a ZIPPED log.

when i run a vm with w2012 the cpu is so high 35-60% ( only one virtual machine)

On the Host or the Guest? If on the Guest, what's the TaskManager inside the Guest show? Who/what is responsible for the CPU?

00:00:00.696769   NumCPUs           <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:00.816088 CPUM: Physical host cores: 4

You can definitely afford to assign a 2nd CPU to your guest, your guest is going to thank you.

00:00:00.637629 Host RAM: 7826MB (7.6GB) total, 7163MB (6.9GB) available
00:00:00.696772   RamSize           <integer> = 0x0000000080000000 (2 147 483 648, 2 048 MB)

Same with the RAM, you could afford 3072 MB (=3 GB).

00:00:00.696904   DmiExposeMemoryTable <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)

Can you explain why this exists on your setup?

00:00:17.930019 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 5.1.26 r117224 '5.1.26'

You need to install the Guest Additions that match your main VirtualBox program. With the VM window having the focus, go to the host's menu "Devices" » "Insert Guest Additions CD Image...". If not prompted by auto-run, run "VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe" from the CD.

[n04h]

hello ,

thanks for your kind reply. i want to edit the post but i'm new here and i don't see the button...

i was searching about it in the FAQ:
"If someone has already replied to the post, you will find a small piece of text output below the post when you return to the topic which lists the number of times you edited it along with the date and time"

the logs are too long to post in one file so i post it separately ( but now i know i can put a zip file )

On the Host or the Guest? If on the Guest, what's the TaskManager inside the Guest show? Who/what is responsible for the CPU?

on the host i run htop ( i add a photo and it's compressed in a zip file )

You can definitely afford to assign a 2nd CPU to your guest, your guest is going to thank you.

i see.. i was thinking 1 core is enough but not in the case of windows XD

Same with the RAM, you could afford 3072 MB (=3 GB).

ok i did it =)

Can you explain why this exists on your setup?

i don't know .. i searched the error in internet and i saw it's caused by a bad installation

so i deleted the vm and i installed it again

You need to install the Guest Additions that match your main VirtualBox program. With the VM window having the focus, go to the host's menu "Devices" » "Insert Guest Additions CD Image...". If not prompted by auto-run, run "VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe" from the CD.

done

now when i run the vm it goes better than before but i don't have clearly if it's normal if the new vm of windows 2012 consumes this resources:

cpu 5.3 and memory usage 46.7 ( i have 8 GB of ram )

my laptop has this characteristics :

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System:
  Host: spark-HP Kernel: 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina 
  base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Notebook v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 84F8 v: 08.10 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.18 
  date: 06/20/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 52.7 Wh condition: 52.7/52.7 Wh (100%) 
  model: HP Primary status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 36864 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 802 7: 800 8: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: nvidia v: 430.26 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.26 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-64-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 4000 
  bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8822be v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 223.39 GiB (21.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SD9SN8W-128G-1006 size: 119.24 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 size: 931.51 GiB 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
  v: 3.0 bus ID: 00:17.0 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 77.42 GiB used: 9.54 GiB (12.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: /home size: 842.37 GiB used: 213.85 GiB (25.4%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sdb1 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.91 GiB used: 512 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 49 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 239 Uptime: 45m Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 762.4 MiB (9.7%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.4.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 
  inxi: 3.0.32 

thank you so much