The latest virtualbox-ose 5.2.0 produces an interrupt storm on the emulated HDA controller. Depending on client system load, there may be more than 50k interrupts/second Reverting to 5.1.30, the rate goes to zero.
Host: FreeBSD 11.1 Client: FreeBSD 11.1
I am pretty sure this is an upstream issue, i.e., other hosts should have the same issue. Can you please report it to the upstream? https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17219
Closed upstream with 5.2.10 https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17219 -- Martin