VirtualBox

Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#10089 closed defect

PAE always exposed to VM regardless of checkbox state — at Version 2

Reported by: Ivan Drucker Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 4.1.8
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Mac OS X

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

On a Mac OS X host, using VirtualBox 4.1.8, PAE appears to always be available to the VM, even if the checkbox in Settings->System->Processor is unchecked.

By contrast, on a Windows host using VirtualBox 4.1.8, PAE is not available to the VM if the checkbox is unchecked.

One way to reproduce:
Use the Mac OS X version of VirtualBox 4.1.8
Uncheck PAE in Settings->System->Processor
Start up VM from Ubuntu 11.10 Server 32-bit edition CD
Press return (four times) until asked about detecting the keyboard layout
Press ESC, and choose to execute a shell
Type: grep -i PAE /proc/cpuinfo

Expected behavior would be no output other than another prompt. (This is how the Windows version behaves.) Actual behavior is that a line of CPU attributes is presented with pae among them, same as if the checkbox were checked.

Also, on a Mac OS X host with the checkbox unchecked, the pae version of the Linux kernel will still be installed, whereas that's not true on a Windows host.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Ivan Drucker, 12 years ago

Forgot to mention: The host computer where this was seen is a MacBook Air 2011 Core i7, 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.7.2.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 11 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: Mac OS X host 4.1.8: PAE always exposed to VM regardless of checkbox statePAE always exposed to VM regardless of checkbox state
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