Camaleón <noela...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nz5c3pf....@newsguy.com
