Re: [VBox-users] HostMemoryLow

2010-07-28 Thread Leonardo Carneiro
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 11:53 am, Michael Eager penned > about "[VBox-users] HostMemoryLow" > >> What is going on?  Does VBox require RAM to be allocated for the >&g

Re: [VBox-users] HostMemoryLow

2010-07-28 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 11:53 am, Michael Eager penned about "[VBox-users] HostMemoryLow" > What is going on? Does VBox require RAM to be allocated for the > full size of a VM's memory? Hi Michael, In short, yes. VirtualBox pre-allo

[VBox-users] HostMemoryLow

2010-07-28 Thread Michael Eager
Hi -- I'm running VBox on OpenSolaris with 6Gb RAM. I'm running several VMs, two with small (<512M) memory allocation, one with 2Gb. When I try to start a new VM with 1Gb memory, I get a HostMemoryLow error message. prstat shows that the RSS for the VirtualBox processes are almost the same as t