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Date:      Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:44:27 +0200
From:      Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox: Eating up 100% CPU, freezing Windows 7
Message-ID:  <1343972667.4952.5.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1v2WeY2-scEo8MRxqDtwQEVkbx4b6cxgDZ48fsC923cAA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fr.,   3. Aug. 2012 06:18:33 CEST, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Hartmann, O.
> <ohartman@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.

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