mitchellh/vagrant — Issue #625: Limit CPU Usage of created Virtual Boxes
Author: dwt
Created: 2012-01-05 15:09:52+00:00
State: open

If the box does something really heavy sometimes that can bring down the host system. While this is principally a bug in VirtualBox it seems they cannot easily fix it for now.

One really great workaround to the problem is to limit the created boxes to 99% cpu max, so there is always enough left to kill the box if need be.

So here's the request: Make that a default setting so I can be sure I still retain control of my computer, even if the box should misbehave. Then later when VirtualBox has finally fixed the issue (sorry, no bug number right now) remove it again.