On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:37:25 +0200, Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenl...@sun.com> wrote:
> As you didn't say a thing about your host OS it's impossible to say > anything intelligent about host memory usage characteristics. Both guests were Windows XP. > The information so far was absolutely correct, as Windows guests touch > the entire RAM they detect pretty early during startup. So they need all > RAM almost instantly. Other guest OSes are less greedy, and touch memory > only as they make use if it. Sure, but my point is that 4GB of memory just went missing somewhere. Each VM had 2GB allocated, and the host has 4GB of RAM. Yet somehow 2x2GB (two guests) ended up using up 4GB of RAM + 4GB of swap and caused the machine to grind to a halt. Gordan _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
