Hiya, Thanks for your reply Miguel.
> 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. > Yup > 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. > Yes, this makes sense, but my setup uses 1.1G of additional memory, which seems way too much (more than what's actually allocated to the guest). > 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 (?)... In my case this problem occurs only when running Solaris 10 as the host (the guest is OpenSolaris). I have a reversed setup on my laptop (OpenSolaris host, Solaris 10 guest), which works fine with much less available memory. This has probably nothing to do with my memory problem but I'm also getting a warning message when booting the OpenSolaris guest on a Solaris 10 host: "WARNING: BIOS microcode patch for AMD Athlon(tm) 64 /Opteron(tm) processor erratum 131 was not detected: updating your system's BIOS to a version containing this microcode patch is HIGHLY recommended or erroneous system operation may occur" However, according to this post[1], I can safely ignore this since Erratum 131 only applies to systems with four or more cores (I only have two). Cheers, Andrew. [1] http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=275439 -- . __/_/_ w: http://darq.com/ . __/_/_ t: 020 7100 1447 . / / e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
