VirtualBox

Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#11255 closed defect (duplicate)

Could not able to allocate and lock memory

Reported by: ericderaps Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 4.2.4
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Linux

Description

i was trying to install oracle 64-bit os in my virtual box when i reached a stage where partioning has to be done and i clicked "Write changes to disk" and a window popped up saying "Could not able to allocate and lock memory". Can you help me with this. Thanks in advance.

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VBox.png (32.6 KB ) - added by ericderaps 11 years ago.
VBox.log.1 (85.4 KB ) - added by ericderaps 11 years ago.
VBox.log.2 (85.3 KB ) - added by ericderaps 11 years ago.
VBox.log (91.1 KB ) - added by ericderaps 11 years ago.

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Change History (8)

by ericderaps, 11 years ago

Attachment: VBox.png added

by ericderaps, 11 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log.1 added

by ericderaps, 11 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log.2 added

by ericderaps, 11 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log added

comment:1 by ericderaps, 11 years ago

Hope the above log files are helpful.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 11 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Yes. Duplicate of #10219. Please continue the discussion there.

comment:3 by Perry G, 11 years ago

Frank,

Are you sure this isn't the problem?

00:00:00.902062 Host RAM: 1917MB total, 519MB available 
00:00:01.975928   RamSize         <integer> = 0x000000003b500000 (995 098 624, 949 MB)

The others on #10219 have ample memory available

comment:4 by Frank Mehnert, 11 years ago

Perry, you are right, actually there are two issues here: There is a VirtualBox bug which makes the guest trigger a Guru Meditation if the guest wants to allocate memory but isn't able to do so. The other problem is that on Windows hosts, sometimes there appears enough memory available but VirtualBox is not able to allocate more memory for the guest.

To make our life a bit easier I always mark such defects as duplicate of #10219 because sometimes it's not easy to decide if there is enough available memory or not.

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