id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
5899,Windows 7 guest unusable -- pauses/freezes frequently for minutes at a time,Jason Baietto,,"Dear Support,

I have purchased VirtualBox (see details below) for a Linux host and am
trying to get it working with a Windows 7 guest (also purchased).

Everything is ""working"" (with the exception of sound) however I'm
experiencing a problem that basically makes the guest completely
unusable.

The Windows 7 guest ""freezes"" or ""pauses"" for a few minutes at a time,
for no apparent reason, fairly frequently (about every minute).

I do not see any system activity occurring on the host during these
pauses.  It's as if it's simply ""stuck"" waiting for a timeout to occur.

Here are the details of my host system:

Arch    : IA-32
BIOS    : 080012
Brand   : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 290
Busses  : IDE ATA SATA PATA PCI USB
CPUs    : 2 dual-core (4 virtual) at 2.80GHz
 Kernel  : 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686
Make    : Supermicro
Memory  : 2.2 GB
Model   : H8DCE
Release : Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
Swap    : 4.0 GB
Video   : nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GTX]

Note that I also tried installing all this on my wife's laptop -- and
everything works perfectly (even sound after I installed the RealTek
driver).

She's running the exact same version of FC12 (with the exact same
kernel) so I know this is somehow related to how VirtualBox runs on my
hardware.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or can help me in any way
to work around this issue.

Thank you very much in advance,
Jason

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Order Number: 5715711516
Order Date: 12/10/2009
Product SKU: XVBII-LCO-9929
Product Name: Sun VirtualBox Perpetual License",defect,closed,host support,VirtualBox 3.1.2,invalid,,,Windows,Linux