Re: Virtualbox.. hogging resources?
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:12:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I've just installed a guest OS of openindiana-151 (Solaris) and on first
>> boot after install I'm seeing VirtualBox pegged at around 95 % for
>> minutes on end.
>>
>> I don't recal seeing anything like that some time ago installing the
>> same OS on a windows 7 HOST.
>>
>> Can any VB users here confirm that this damned unusual?
>
> I can't confirm because I run the opposite (windows host with debian
> guests) and as you, have had not issues at all although the host is not a
> very powerful machine.
>
> Are you running the latest available version of VirtualBox and Guest
> Additions?
Yes
> How many cores do you have in the host and how many are assigned to the
> guest?
1. Guest is assigned 900Mb Ram
I think a poster on the vb list may have hit the nail about this. The
guest OS (Solaris [openindiana]) is known to be a heavy ram user (zfs
file system) and more ram is recommended, so the thinking was that its
actually the guest chewing up ram.
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