I too have the same problem. Although I already had it a couple days before upgrading to 4.1.4.. upgrading didn't help either.
any thoughts? Daniel On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Steve Kleene <sk...@syrano.acb.uc.edu> wrote: > I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy > host for eight months. However, the VM just became pathologically slow. For > example, if I boot the VM, call Photoshop 6, and open a small JPG, it all > works but takes several minutes. During much of this time the XP Task > Manager pins at 100% CPU usage, and the host's cooling fans are revving hard. > If I then ask to print the JPG, Photoshop (eventually) declares "There is not > enough memory for this operation". When the VM is idle, it shows about 5% > CPU usage and I see no unexpected memory hogs running. The Debian host runs > fine. > > This disease roughly coincides with my upgrade from virtualbox 4.1.2 to > 4.1.4, including the guest additions and extension pack. So I uninstalled > 4.1.4 and put back 4.1.2 from snapshot.debian.org, together with its guest > additions and extension pack. I also put back a copy of the VM (xpvm.vdi) > and home vbox directories that I had saved on June 18th when everything was > fine. (I saved these as Linux files, not as a snapshot. I have successfully > started from them before). Finally I rebooted the host too. None of this > solved the problem. > > The host is a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with 2 GB of memory. The VM has the > recommended 192 MB of memory. This all worked fine until I ran apt-get > upgrade (including virtualbox) four days ago. I have a newer Wheezy machine > (i5 3.2 GHz + 4 GB) that is running about the same VM (also 192 MB) under > virtualbox 4.1.4 with no problem. > > Any ideas how to identify the source of this slowness? Thanks. > > > -- > 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/loom.20111108t135340-...@post.gmane.org > > -- 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/cakuhbgfh7f+pwhlo6e17_xghs+mfx3evee7sgqdleaoc79_...@mail.gmail.com
