> Thanks for your reply. Yes, Solaris likes to eat some ram, but as far > as I'm aware most modern operating systems will try to use as much ram > as they've got. > > So after booting my guest OS I lost around 1.5G of swap and 840M of > RAM. If I add this up it's 2.3G (!), but I only assigned 1G to the > guest so I'd expect it to use no more. Why could this be?
Hi Well, I don't really know how VBOX works internally but as far as I know there are two usages of memory: the one you assign to the guest OS that will be available INSIDE the guest AND the system memory that the virtual machine (host) requires to handle the guest system that already has its own allocated memory. As we already know Solaris eats lots of memory but the limit is the 1Gb you specify, but apart of this, the virtual machine requires aditional memory to handle the guest system that already has 1Gb allocated, and it is with any OS you install. The problem or undesirable situation is when running Solaris as guest it consumes more and more memory while running until you get out of memory, don't know if it is a bug or the way VM manages Solaris guest requires almost unlimited memory (?)... Have tried with Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Solaris, and only with this last one VBOX consumes all host (not guest) memory... I don't know why it happens, but hope you understood why VBOX consumes more than the 1Gb (or the amount you choose) of memory you setup for the guest. Take care _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
