VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#3721 closed defect

Unable to allocate and lock memory — at Initial Version

Reported by: Bill Morita Owned by:
Component: VMM Version: VirtualBox 2.2.0
Keywords: handy pages Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

I am unable to run VB 2.2.0. Error occurs running both OpenSolaris and OpenBSD. Host system is an XP Pro 2002 system: Dual 2.4 Ghz Intel Core2 Duo P8600 with 2G RAM

From the tail of VBox.log:

00:05:45.504 PGM: Failed to procure handy pages; rc=VERR_NO_MEMORY rcAlloc=VINF_SUCCESS rcSeed=VERR_NO_MEMORY cHandyPages=0x14 00:05:45.504 cAllPages=0x4106c cPrivatePages=0x34be4 cSharedPages=0x0 cZeroPages=0xc488 00:05:45.505 PGM: Failed to procure handy pages; rc=VERR_NO_MEMORY rcAlloc=VINF_SUCCESS rcSeed=VERR_NO_MEMORY cHandyPages=0x14 00:05:45.505 cAllPages=0x4106c cPrivatePages=0x34be4 cSharedPages=0x0 cZeroPages=0xc488 00:05:45.505 VM: Raising runtime error 'HostMemoryLow' (fFlags=0x2) 00:05:45.505 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDED'. 00:05:45.566 Console: VM runtime error: fatal=false, errorID=HostMemoryLow message="Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM"

A google search indicates the error message was recently added to VirtualBox Relates to Changeset 17503

Timestamp:

2009-03-06 22:13:13 (1 month ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

PGM: PGMR3PhysAllocateHandyPages fix and error handling.

Files:

  • trunk/src/VBox/VMM/PGMPhys.cpp (modified) (5 diffs)

Virtual Box System configuration: OpenSolaris Base Memory: 1024 Video Memory: 12 Rest are default settings

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