Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#3204 closed enhancement (fixed)
Performance improvement on Windows XP SP3 host OS/fixed in 2.1.4
| Reported by: | gmuthu | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.0 |
| Keywords: | performance | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Solaris | Host type: | Windows |
Description
It will be great if the CPU utilization (while running a guest OS) on a Windows (XP SP3) host OS can be improved further.
My PC is running Pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GHz with 2 GB of memory (pretty low-end by today's standards, I know). I primarily use Virtualbox to test out Solaris/OpenSolaris.
After starting a guest OS (I run only one at a time), the CPU util. shoots upto 100% and remains there (observed thru taskmanager). It hardly comes down. The guest OS is assigned 1 GB of RAM (not worried about the guest OS memory consumption as it is expected).
Why I think the performance can be improved: Vmware Server 2.0. While during the booting of the guest OS, the cpu util too reaches 100%, but it drops down to 30-40% range once the OS is up.
If this can be achieved with Vbox, it will be great.
I have not tried 2.1.2 yet.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
| Summary: | Performance improvement on Windows XP SP3 host OS → Performance improvement on Windows XP SP3 host OS -> retry with 2.1.4 |
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comment:3 by , 16 years ago
I have same problem. Cpu utilization 99%. And randomly hangs on reboot VM on graphical boot prompt. I'm use Virtualbox for testing PXE boot. And this CPU utilization i see usually on network operations.
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
| Summary: | Performance improvement on Windows XP SP3 host OS -> retry with 2.1.4 → Performance improvement on Windows XP SP3 host OS/fixed in 2.1.4 |
Try again with 2.1.4 when it's out.