Why using Virtualization is making system hangs?

[Avi Greenbury]

PM wrote:
> I really forgot to add the details, it was just virtual box in Ubuntu
> LTS 10.04 (OSE) which is the host and the guest being openSUSE 11.4,
> however, the hangings are in the guest (not in the host). But the
> hangings means just for some moments the PC is taking any keyboard
> input and doing nothing, not responding (like, e.g., opening an
> applications in the guest) but this is random (like it sometimes
> happens and sometimes not).......
> 

Does allocating more resources to the guest help at all? What sort of
resources have you allocated it currently, and is there any pattern to
its hanging - are there particular jobs it's in the middle of, or at
particular times or something?

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Avi