High CPU usage when running a CentOS guest in VirtualBox
- by sagi
I am running CentOS 5.3 as a VirtualBox 3.0.0 guest running on Windows XP.
The Windows host CPU usage is constantly at 50% although the CentOS guest is completely idle (i.e. 0.00 load average).
I know this is a common problem related to the 1000Hz frequency that the CentOS kernel runs at, and previously a special kernel-vm packages were released…