id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
6819,"virtualbox unable to allocate ""handy pages"" when lots of memory is available.",anthony ten broeck,,"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?

",defect,closed,host support,VirtualBox 3.2.0,duplicate,hostmemorylow handy,,other,Windows