Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#3076 closed defect
VirtualBox 2.1.0 silently fails guest file opens when VBox process runs out of file descriptors — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Paul | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | shared folders | Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Solaris |
Description
Performing some large Visual Studio builds on Windows 2003 using a project located in a shared folder was failing with random windows errors about being unable to open specific files. The files named existed and could be opened at a later time with no problems.
On a hunch, I increased the ulimit of file descriptors from 256 to 1024 and restarted the virtual machine. After then I was able to use VStudio without errors. (I was also able to reproduce the error by attempting a Windows command line copy of the project with "xcopy /s <shared-project-location> <local-project-location>")
It would be helpful if when VirtualBox encounters EMFILE errors to log a notice (rate limited if need be) to the log file for the machine to give a hint as to the problem.
