Comment 13 for bug 455112

Well, I had THOUGHT that running with just one CPU defined in VirtualBox was a fix for me, but apparently, it is not. While it is a huge improvement over defining 2 CPU's, once I try to do anything that needs a little horse-power, everything goes down hill. Today, I was testing a PowerPoint presentation because I'm guest lecturing next week and have no choice but to use the university's computers with MS PowerPoint 2007 -- which I have installed in my XP VM. I use some embedded videos. My virtualized XP became painfully slow and was barely responsive. I couldn't finish testing the presentation until I got to my office later in the morning, completely defeating the purpose of having VirtualBox at all. VERY disappointing.