On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:35, Andreas Höschler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just given the latest VirtualBox 2.1.0 a try on Solaris 10 > u6 with a Solaris and a Windows guest. I am very excited that tap/ > bridge is no longer necessary for host interface networking. This > works lie a charm, at least for a while. > > I first thought my problem might be machine related, so I tried > another one. But I experienced the exact same problem there as > well. The machine has 4 GB RAM and enough diskspace for what I want > to accomplish (slow SATA though). Beside VirtualBox that machine > also runs Sun Ray Server so that I can access the VirtualBox gui > via a Sun Ray. I started one Solaris 10 guest and a Windows guest. > Everything runs fine for quite a while. Then after an hour or so, > the machine starts to slow down massively. After two hours the Sun > Ray sessions dies and a bit later the complete machine (no ssh > possible anymore). I checked the machine with > > prstat > swap -s > > shortly before its death but found nothing unusal. Any idea what > might cause this problem? The Ultra 20 with 4 GB should be able to > host these two virtual machines that are doing close to nothing. > Anyway both test machines froze after a while. Can anybody confirm > this? Ideas to overcome this are very welcome! > How much memory have you assigned to the VM's? How much remains for the host? It was explained here yesterday that each page a guest touches is made non-swappable in the host. After a while, there may be too little memory left for the host to operate, and since part of each VM runs in host process space, they may freeze along with other processes in the host.
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