VirtualBox calm down!

I have been testing some respins and such on my desktop using VirtualBox. I noticed that the main process was spinning at 100% cpu utilization when my guest was sitting around doing nothing. Hmmm, strange. After some googling around I found that it was a problem with the CPU affinity of VirtualBox. Here is my fix.


sudo yum install util-linux-ng
sudo vi /usr/bin/VirtualBox

change line 72 to

exec "/bin/taskset"  "-c" "1" "/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox" "$@"




Save the file and relaunch VirtualBox. Works as good as a valium for my virtualization.

posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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