id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 6472,vboxdrv runs kernel out of memory,Daryll Strauss,," It appears that performing a lot of network traffic with the host computer while a !VirtualBox image is running can cause the kernel to run out of memory. Host:[[BR]] Running latest Fedora 12[[BR]] kernel 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64 Guest:[[BR]] Running Fedora 11[[BR]] bridged networking * Export a file system from the host computer * Mount the file system on a non-guest computer * Write a bunch of files to the file system from the non-guest Eventually the host computer starts to crash as the slab fails to allocate memory. Repeated the test three times and reproduced the problem each time. Stopped running the virtual machine and ran the same test and it worked fine. I'm attaching one of the oops' when this happened. ",defect,closed,network/hostif,VirtualBox 3.1.6,fixed,,,Linux,Linux