On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:03:47AM +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > And since I can't get WinXP to work with the virtual box video driver, > > I am running win2k. That works fine (except for odd crashes if I > > run command.com directly) but I notice now that when it sits idle > > it is using 100% of one of my CPUs. It actually does not do > > that when booting, only after sitting idle. > > Windows 2000 has no command.com. It uses cmd.exe instead. > > > The task manager in Win2K shows 0-1% CPU usage as would be > > expected. No screen saver or anything else running except the > > system idle task. Is Vbox unable to virtualize the idle task > > to nothing? > > > > What Host OS you use? Ubuntu ? > > I can't really help, except that some kernels perform better than others. > HINT: try get/build a different kernel. >
Yes, ubuntu. 2.6.17, pretty recent. Are you suggesting this is a normal behaviour for the VM? I would have thought an idle guest would mean an idle VM. Windows XP as a guest does not have the problem -- is it a problem with Win2K guests? _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
