[VBox-users] How does one disable APIC ?

[Brad B. <bra...@se...>]

I have a Fedora Guest on a Windows host and the gnome-shell gets very high CPU usage (top often 
reports over 100 %CPU).

Articles on the internet seem to indicate that this is due to using APIC; e.g.,see
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1330484

The article above suggests directly editing an XML file and making it read only, but I am not 
certain which XML file and this seems like a work around.

I have tried to disable APIC using the GUI and VBoxManage, but Virtual Box seems to keep re-enabling 
it no matter what I do. For example, the following command seems to have no effect (the GUI still 
reports APIC is enabled).
    VBoxManage modifyvm fedora-tst --apic=off