Re: [vbox-users] OpenSolaris guest on MacBook: 99% CPU

2008-07-31 Thread Rob Dickens
I'm happy to report that vBox 1.6.2 (now on Mac OS 10.5.4) does not suffer from said problems. Thanks! 2008/5/8 Rob Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Thanks for responding. I have a 2GHz CoreDuo MacBook with 2GB RAM running 10.5.2 Leopard, and vBox 1.6. (The default) 512MB of RAM (and 16GB

Re: [vbox-users] OpenSolaris guest on MacBook: 99% CPU

2008-05-08 Thread Rob Dickens
Hi. Thanks for responding. I have a 2GHz CoreDuo MacBook with 2GB RAM running 10.5.2 Leopard, and vBox 1.6. (The default) 512MB of RAM (and 16GB disk) are assigned to the guest. Yes, the virtual hard disk is heavily blinking. The load on both host and guest are high (with the fan at full speed),

Re: [vbox-users] OpenSolaris guest on MacBook: 99% CPU

2008-05-07 Thread Christian Pötzsch
Hi Rob, I installed and use OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my MacBook Pro (10.5.2) without any trouble. The guest shows around 14% and the host around 30% CPU utilization. Do you use Tiger or Leopard? How many RAM do you assign to the Solaris guest? Is the virtual hard disk led heavily blinking? Does

[vbox-users] OpenSolaris guest on MacBook: 99% CPU

2008-05-06 Thread Rob Dickens
Dear vbox users, This looks very nice, but is unusable, thanks to the heavy load on the cpu. The same goes for the previous versions of Solaris I've installed. If somebody knows of a configuration (on a MacBook) which IS usable, please could they spill the beans. Cheers, Rob