GURU_MEDITATION crash

[anonymous]

when I configure the virtual guest for 2048MB of ram it crashes. 1536MB ram does not.

host and guest o/s is win 2k3 ee.

00:00:56.658 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 00:00:57.663 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'. 00:00:57.687 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={26881797-bc98-444d-ac69-820633b93ec7} aComponent={Display} aText={Argument address is NULL} aWarning=false, preserve=false

[Frank Mehnert]

Well, it probably shouldn't show a Guru meditation in that case but 2048 are more than the theoretical maximum memory usable by one VM running on a 32-bit Windows host. VirtualBox has to map the whole guest memory into the address space but the address space layout on Windows on 32-bit hosts is 2048MB for user level and 2048MB for privileged memory. Therefore I guess you will not be able to assign more than about 1800MB for one VM. If you need more, switch to a 64-bit host OS.

[anonymous]

thanks. you might want to reopen this as a U/I or settings validation issue.