VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#7832 closed defect (obsolete)

Unable to allocate and lock memory

Reported by: Neil Owned by:
Component: host support Version: VirtualBox 3.2.12
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Windows

Description (last modified by aeichner)

VBox version is 3.2.12.

Host OS - Windows 2003 E x64 12GB host memory, 1.1GB used by host

client OS - debian 5.0.5, allocated 512MB, up and running

client OS - winxp-64, allocated 4GB, error - Unable to allocate and lock memory, reduce it to 3GB and same error, reduce it to 2GB and it boots and runs. All vbox directories are excluded from any virus scan. Had been running until Windows host was rebooted.

client OS - Oracle EntLnx 5/64, allocated 4GB, up and running.

Have rolled back to 3.2.10 and still same issue. Currently 8GB memory is available on the Windows host.

Attachments (2)

wxp-64.zip (50.6 KB ) - added by Neil 13 years ago.
Logs
wxp-64_101216.zip (23.5 KB ) - added by Neil 13 years ago.
two log files.

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Change History (10)

comment:1 by Sander van Leeuwen, 13 years ago

Cc: nfguide@… removed

Without the VBox.log from such a session we can't say anything meaningful.

by Neil, 13 years ago

Attachment: wxp-64.zip added

Logs

comment:2 by Neil, 13 years ago

See attached log files.

Upon review, please provide further instructions on additional information / data required.

Cheers, N

comment:3 by Sander van Leeuwen, 13 years ago

Well, you've got less than 4 GB free when you start the VM that needs 4 GB. I don't know why you think 8 GB is available.

comment:4 by Sander van Leeuwen, 13 years ago

Out of the 4 logs one shows the failure you mentioned. The other VM sessions were indeed started with plenty of host memory free, but of course didn't fail either.

comment:5 by Neil, 13 years ago

Ok, so here is another attachment with two log files and screencam.

  1. Start up of Windows XP-64 with 2048MB of memory allocated - successful
  2. Start up of Windows XP-64 with 4096MB of memory allocated - unsuccessful

I may be REALLY stupid and overlooking something, so those with greater wisdom than I can point out the error or what I have overlooked, I would greatly appreciate.

by Neil, 13 years ago

Attachment: wxp-64_101216.zip added

two log files.

comment:6 by Neil, 13 years ago

Video clip link is here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgUQFMAPWmI

Again host memory is 12GB.

comment:7 by Neil, 13 years ago

So, based on responses, and ongoing testing, a Windows 2003-64 does not support Windows client OS's using more than 2GB of memory.

When will this be looked into and/or addressed? What else can I provide to get a resolution on this issue?

comment:8 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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