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