I don't think this is something you can fix but I noticed it and want to bring it to your attention.

I have previous version (not the with the Retina display) of the MBP 15" with 8GB of memory.

I am running DrupalPro 7.x-3.x with:
VirtualBox: 4.1.18 - with 4.1.18 Guest Additions installed
Processors: 2
Main memory: 3072
Video memory: 32

Two situations that I have had the fans spin up to over 6K rpm:
Running the Netbeans debugger
Watching a TV show through Hulu.com.

The curious thing is that iStat nano shows the temperature as "Normal": 29-35 degrees, but the fans really spin up. As soon as the debugging session is over or I close Hulu, the fans spin down.

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mike stewart’s picture

mike stewart commented
Assigned: Unassigned » mike stewart
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Ya, at its core, definitely outside the scope of this VM setup. Seems like an Ubuntu or Virtualbox issue. I'd check your fav search engine for a solution. If you find something that fixes the setup, I'd love to include it as a contrib script to make it easy/simple to customize for running on MAC.

Maybe these will help?

Chris Charlton’s picture

Chris Charlton
Primary language English
Location Los Angeles
commented

I am finding that on my Mac the culprits seem to be Spotlight [Indexing] & Time Machine. Try ignoring your VM image/folders/files from both of those Mac services and post back any noticeable changes with your fans.

mike stewart’s picture

mike stewart commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

Thanks for the feedback Chris Charlton! I'm closing with the thought this is likely the culprit, and the fact there's been no feedback.

If anyone tries this, and it doesnt' fix, please feel free to re-open. Seems its a Mac/VirtualBox issue -- unrelated to Drupalpro

Chris Charlton’s picture

Chris Charlton
Primary language English
Location Los Angeles
commented

Mike, you mentioned to some students recently the 32-bit version of DrupalPro is less intensive for workstations than the 64-bit edition. Maybe folks who are running the 64-bit should try the 32-bit image and see if they're getting the same issue. Either way, Virtual Machines each a TON of RAM, and siphon the CPU all day so if you are not with 8GB of RAM or higher then you're probably swapping a lot of virtual memory (which is not fun or desired).

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.