Opened 14 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#6819 closed defect (duplicate)
virtualbox unable to allocate "handy pages" when lots of memory is available.
| Reported by: | anthony ten broeck | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | host support | Version: | VirtualBox 3.2.0 |
| Keywords: | hostmemorylow handy | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Windows |
Description (last modified by )
Greetings,
Sorry to be a bother. I work for oracle and use this as a tool for troubleshooting x86, oel, and other os issues. I am running a quad core phenom 955 am3 with 6 GB ddr3 memory(3x2). My host system is windows xp pro 64bit. When I run virtual box and the guests combined memory usage(not allocation) exceeds around 1 GB, I get a severity non-fatal error, with an error-id of HostMemoryLow. If I put 12 GB of ram in the system(2x4,2x2). I get the same error when the combined used memory in the guests exceeds a little over 3GB of ram. I have run memtest on the system multiple times. I can allocate the memory in vmware player and everything is happy. I love virtualbox - it works fine on my mac, but my mac doesn't have the horsepower of my desktop. This has been present since 3.1.4 at least. I have seen similar posts as well.
Any ideas?
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Change History (8)
by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | vbox_error_message.jpg added |
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by , 14 years ago
log file up until system paused itself waiting for more "handy pages"
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
This is still present and keeping me from using virtualbox - I have seen posts with this similar issue for the past couple of years. It appears to be a bug that has gone unfixed and should be addressed. Any suggestions - I can use vmware player and it works fine, but that limits what I can do.
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 14 years ago
It might be related to XP64. That version is only half-supported by Microsoft anyway. I have no issues whatsoever with Windows 7 x64 with 16 GB RAM.
comment:4 by , 12 years ago
Replying to sandervl73:
It might be related to XP64. That version is only half-supported by Microsoft anyway. I have no issues whatsoever with Windows 7 x64 with 16 GB RAM.
I'm having same issue with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, on 6GB RAM with virtualbox VirtualBox 4.1.8r75467
If I try and run any guest with over 1 GB RAM, I get the following error at "boot up"
Error ID: HostMemoryLow, Severity: Non-Fatal Error
The host machine then pauses and wont restart and I have to switch it off and take the RAM down to 1GB.
Also, if I'm running a 1GB Ram guest, and start another one to run concurrently, I get the same error on the second machine. Is there some sort of size limit set at 1GB Ram?
Host Details: windows 7 Professional 64 bit Service Pack 1, 6 GB Ram, Intel core i7-2620M CPU @ 2.7GHz Guest Details: windows 7 Professional 32bit Service Pack 1, 2048 MB Ram
Task Manager while Guest is running: CPU Usuage 1-3%, RAM 3.02GB used
comment:5 by , 12 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → duplicate |
| Status: | new → closed |
Duplicate of #10219.
image of the error when vbox cannot find "handy pages"