Re: VirtualBox: Eating up 100% CPU, freezing Windows 7

From: O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:40:40 +0200
Am 08/04/12 00:36, schrieb Kevin Oberman:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_iet.unipi.it> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 07:44:27AM +0200, Bernhard Fr?hlich wrote:
>>> On Fr.,??  3. Aug. 2012 06:18:33 CEST, Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Hartmann, O.
>>>> <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>>> I discover that when running Windows 7 in a VirtualBox On FreeBSD 10
>>>>> (r238968: Wed Aug 1 14:26:40 CEST 2012), VBox is most recent from the
>>>>> ports, that the VirtualBox eats up 100% CPU time and freezes Windows 7
>>>>> for more than a minute. For a minute or so, I can work, then, the
>>>>> freeze occurs again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't see this behaviour with a Ubuntu Guest on the same box. Is
>>>>> there Windows 7 specifica to be aware of?
>>>>
>>>> I am seeing the same thing. Also Win7 guest with Windows showing idle
>>>> process at 99%, but my system is showing VB at 100%. The VM is only
>>>> running a single CPU, so FreeBSD is still running OK, but the Win7
>>>> system seems to freeze up periodically.
>>>>
>>>> 9.1-PRERELEASE on amd64 updated yesterday (though it has been this way
>>>> since VB was updated to 4.1.18. Guest additions for 4.1.18
>>>> installed.All ports current. I'm thinking of backing off to 4.1.16.
>>>
>>> Can someone confirm that this is a regression in 4.1.18? Then I could talk to upstream and see if I can get that adressed.
>>
>> Could it be a case of kernel and virtualbox modules out of sync ?
>> I do see occasional crashes with virtualbox in both the host and guest,
>> but a reinstall of in-sync kernel and modules usually fixes them.
> 
> Nope. To be really, really sure I just re-built the module and
> rebooted. VB still eats 100% CPU (out of 400%) continually.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, though.
> 

No, also in my case. I build world and the VBox software with each
kernel - usually.

Regards,
Oliver


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