Some OpenGL apps crash the VM, if there are many VMs

[Technologov]

Playing "Serious Sam 1" on the VM, and starting a second VM made the first VM crash. The second VM may sometimes also crash.

But first VM will crash always.

Host: Win XP SP2, VBox 2.1.0, ATI Radeon HD 3850, Core 2 Guest: Win XP, 3D enabled, Serious Sam 1 game running Guest2: Win 2000, 3D disabled

Tried with both VT=on and VT=off.

-Technologov 17.12.2008

[Technologov]

Here is the log of the crash:

[Technologov]

Windows XP crash with "Serious Sam" game, when other VM started

[Leonid Lobachev]

From the log: 00:10:52.086 OpenGL Error: Out of memory trying to allocate 524288 bytes! How much memory do you have, and how much is allocated per VM?

Though it should toss a warning and not crash, indeed.

[Technologov]

Host: Win XP SP2, VBox 2.1.0, ATI Radeon HD 3850 256 MB VRAM, 4 GB of RAM

Guest 1: Win XP, 3D enabled, Serious Sam 1 game running 16 MB VRAM, 512 MB of RAM

Guest 1: Win 2000, 3D disabled, 8 MB of VRAM, 256 MB of RAM

Perhaps in addition to RAM, log file should include the VRAM size of guest + host.

20 00:00:00.827 / (level 0)

21 00:00:00.827 Name <string> = "Windows XP" (cch=11)

23 00:00:00.827 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000020000000 (536870912)

add VRamSize ?

[Technologov]

This works now in v2.1.2. Please close bug.

-Technologov

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Thanks for the feedback.