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Why is VM virtualbox consuming so much cpu all the time?

Toon KoppelaarsJan 9 2011 — edited Mar 21 2011
Hello again,

I installed Oracle VM virtualbox, with the developerdays appliance that is downloadable from otn, on my laptop (Windows7 64 bit). What I now notice is that whenever the 'developerdays' virtual machine is running, an image called VirtualBox.exe is consuming 80% of one of the cores in the laptop. This is going on inside my host OS (Windows7) while absolutely nothing is going on inside the VM host.

Why is this?

I was using VMware up to now, and this wasn't happening with VMware: when the VM host was doing nothing, no cpu was being used by VMware.

Can this be fixed? Or is this just how Virtualbox operates?

Thanks,

Toon
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