Confirming on Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 with a WinXP and a Win7 guest. The guest systems freeze for half a minute evey 10-15 seconds, which renders them completely unusable.
It seems to be a kernel issue (CONFIG_HZ), see here: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5501 also here: http://marcosaruj.com/archives/382 Another page discusses possible (non-working for me) work-arounds: http://it.newinstance.it/2009/11/29/virtualbox-intermittent-freezes-in-karmic-ubuntu-910/ Right now, VirtualBox is broken for me in Karmic. I really don't want to downgrade to 2.6.28, but this seems like that's the only option (or using a rt kernel, makes no difference since I jump out of the update mechanism and only gain more maintenance work :\ ). qemu/kvm works without freezing, but audio doesn't work and the graphics performance is crawling. ** Bug watch added: Virtualbox Trac #5501 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5501 -- Virtual Windows xp guest freezing from time to time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
