Hi all,

I'm running VirtualBox 2.0.2 on a Solaris 10 host, with OpenSolaris as a 
guest machine.  I'm constantly hitting a problem where my host runs out 
of memory.

I have 3 gigs of ram on the host in total and I assigned 1 gig to the 
guest.  Before booting the guest I have around 1.5 gigs of free memory 
on the host.  Here is my vmstat output:

 r  b  w   swap       free         re  mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 -- --   
in     sy    cs    us sy id
 0  0  0   1688812 1534436  0    0   0   0   0  0  0  0   0   0  0  533  
629  579  1  0  98

when I boot my guest, on the OpenSolaris login prompt I get around 910M 
free:

 0 0 0 529736 938412  0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1167 13346 1289 
4  5 90

after login it's around 750M left:

0 0 0 196888 770368  0   2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 2018 19572 2999 11 
4 85

now I start Firefox on the guest:

0 0 0  24836 683884  0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1474 3735 1985  4  
1 95

660M free on the host and lo and behold vbox pops up saying:

Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. 
Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM.

Error ID: HostMemoryLow
Severity: Non-Fatal Error

I reproduced this at least 4 times.  Is this just me or is anyone else 
having this problem?


Cheers,


Andrew

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