title: Visual Studio slow in Virtualbox
body: <p>Like really really slow.</p>
  
  <p>I've got a 64 bit, 8 cores, 12 gig ram windows 7 host.  I gave 4 cores and 4 gigs of ram to a 64 bit windows 7 virtual machine within which I am trying to run visual studio 2010 (and sql server - but that's it).</p>
  
  <p>It worked for a few days but then the resource usage went off the charts - near 100% CPU at all times.  I turned off windows 7 visual effects and it dropped immediately to normal levels.  However any time I try to do anything in visual studio it spikes right back up.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone with a similar rig have a similar experience?  I know people have pulled this set-up off successfully and have been very happy with it so I'm wondering if I just have a bad configuration somewhere.</p>