Hi Paul, >> 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.
I have assigned 800 MB to each guest. With 4 GB RAM this leaves 2.4 GB to the OS. Should be sufficient!? Regards, Andreas BTW: Right now it runs fine, but I a sure the problem will reoccur. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
