Long pauses in Visual Studio running on a Windows XP SP2 guest under Linux

[bifferos]

I've experienced regular pauses of up to 12 seconds on what I consider to be fairly capable hardware. For some reason such pauses seem to only affect the studio, and not the start menu. Work that one out.

Host: I've installed Slackware 12.0, Running Kernel 2.6.21.5 (SMP), this is on a Dell Precision 380, Pentium D dual core with AMD-V. 2GB RAM 60GB of free disk space (120GB SATA drive)

Guest Settings:
Base memory: 617
Video memory: 12MB
ACPI: Enabled
(everything else): Disabled
Two SATA disks (C: and D:)
PIIX3 controller (I needed to use some old disk images, but this shouldn't matter when using SATA I think).

Guest: Windows XP SP2 + Intel Matrix Storage drivers + Visual Studio 2005 (service pack 1).

Forum reports indicate this is also an issue for 2.1.0
see: ​http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=13500

[bifferos]

Log file.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 3.1.2. Make sure to upgrade the guest additions to 3.1.2 as well.