Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#6819 closed defect
virtualbox unable to allocate "handy pages" when lots of memory is available. — at Initial Version
| 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
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?
Change History (2)
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"
image of the error when vbox cannot find "handy pages"