Re: Oops: Hmmmm? VirtualBox doesn't like Intel?

2010-07-04 Thread Eric Shubert
Jim March wrote: On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:10 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: After reading some of the answers (thanks!), I realized that I have an ambiguity in the description of my problem. What happens is that the GUEST (Win XP) maxes out its processor (as reported by the WinXP task manag

Re: Oops: Hmmmm? VirtualBox doesn't like Intel?

2010-07-04 Thread Jim March
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:10 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: > After reading some of the answers (thanks!), I realized that I have an > ambiguity in the description of my problem. > What happens is that the GUEST (Win XP) maxes out its processor (as reported > by the WinXP task manager) on Intel

Oops: Hmmmm? VirtualBox doesn't like Intel?

2010-07-04 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
After reading some of the answers (thanks!), I realized that I have an ambiguity in the description of my problem. What happens is that the GUEST (Win XP) maxes out its processor (as reported by the WinXP task manager) on Intel, but works fine on AMD. The host (*Ubuntu 10.04), on the other hand

Re: Hmmmm? VirtualBox doesn't like Intel?

2010-07-04 Thread Kevin Fries
Actually yes, the problem is most likely not VBox, nut instead Windows. One of the dirty little secrets MS does not readily release is that there is more than one MS core, an it can only be canged during install. If you installed Windows on that same VM that was dogging, it would very likely run

Re: Hmmmm? VirtualBox doesn't like Intel?

2010-07-04 Thread Eric Shubert
kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Sometime ago I got to virtualize this bare-metal WinXP laptop under *Ubuntu and I was happy. Later on, the performance proved to be unbearable (processor pegged at 100% load 100% of the time) and I was unhappy. Life went on. Bug went itching... Geek sprung into ac

Re: Hmmmm? VirtualBox doesn't like Intel?

2010-07-04 Thread Lisa Kachold
More info please: On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:53 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com < kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote: > Sometime ago I got to virtualize this bare-metal WinXP laptop under *Ubuntu > and I was happy. > Later on, the performance proved to be unbearable (processor pegged at 100% > load 100% of

Hmmmm? VirtualBox doesn't like Intel?

2010-07-04 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Sometime ago I got to virtualize this bare-metal WinXP laptop under *Ubuntu and I was happy. Later on, the performance proved to be unbearable (processor pegged at 100% load 100% of the time) and I was unhappy. Life went on. Bug went itching... Geek sprung into action and: I vdi(ed) the laptop

Re: OT: (or is it?) Interesting take on PKI and security

2010-07-04 Thread Tim Bogart
Yes they do. The difference being that if public keys are going to be forged in the circle of trust system, a whole lot of systems have to be compromised. With PKI, you're putting all your eggs in that one basket. And if you lose control of it. That's it. Game over. You're in trouble. And