HostMemoryLow on Solaris 10 x86 u6, VBox 2.1.0

[Robert Evans]

We are experiencing a recurring problem on several of our Solaris hosts. We have 64 bit Dell 2950's running Solaris 10 w/ 12 GB of memory on each box. We only have 2-3 VMs running on each box, each with 1 GB of memory assigned. If we try to set the memory of a VM to 2 GB, we get a HostMemoryLow message. This happens even after rebooting the host. ZFS memory usage has been limited to 1 GB, and the host OS shows access to all 12 GB of memory. The VMs are all windows 2003 server. I am unable to provide the VBox.log due to corporate reasons.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

32 or 64 bits Solaris host?

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Without a VBox.log there's not much we can do to help. Can't you just filter out any confidential information?

[Robert Evans]

It is a 64 bit Solaris host.

I will have to print out the log and then scan it back in. Is an image acceptable, or do you want me to OCR the scanned log?

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Image is fine, but it would be rather big, so OCR would be better unless it's a lot of work for you.

[Frank Mehnert]

You might have noticed that your previous comment is almost unreadable because your managed it to cut'n'paste the VBox.log file. Please use the Attach button to attach files. And there is a Preview button as well.

Please could you add your comment again but this time without this VBox.log dump. Then attach the VBox.log file to this defect and I will remove your previous comment to make this bug report readable again.

[Robert Evans]

Log of hung VM due to memory problem

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

This is due to the double memory accounting bug in Solaris 10 for anonymous memory locking, which the current workaround is to increase swap.

Refer here:

http://wikis.sun.com/display/VDI3/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-SolarisHostsMustHaveAdequateSwapSpace%28BugID1225025%29