VirtualBox FreeBSD guest, eating 100% processor

no1youknowz

Hi,

From the posts on the virtualbox forum, when using a FreeBSD guest. It eats up 100% processor util.

Here is my top:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5544 root 15 0 217m 168m 3284 S 100 6.7 946:39.17 VBoxVRDP

Here is clarification of the problem:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1663

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=507&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

To fix this, you have to build guest kernel with HZ=100 (kernel timer) and without tickless mode.

Would it be possible for this to be included in the next release, or instructions to recompile another kernel?

I am running CentOS 5 as the host, VirtualBox 1.4 and PfSense RC2 as the guest. If anyone needs more info, let me know and I will clarify.

Thanks

no1youknowz

Apparently this issue is being looked at by the devs of Virtualbox, but since I am the only one who has made a post on it. I guess we shouldnt worry.

But anyhow, give Virtualbox a go, you will be pleasantly suprised by how good it is.

Has more support than VMWare Server 1.3!

rsw686

Has more support than VMWare Server 1.3!

Maybe but pfSense and other BSD platforms run on VMware correctly. ;) Never heard of VirtualBox though and will have to give it a look at.