"Unable to allocate and lock memory" installing Ub

[madodel]

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 desktop on VirtualBox 1-5-6 build 9 on my T42p running eCS 2.0 RC1. I have 2GB RAM. I alot 1GB to Ubuntu. I get the following error after format of the virtual drive is done and it is about 15% into the install.

"Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM..


Error ID:
HostMemoryLow
Severity:
Non-Fatal Error"

There is still 446MB of Free RAM available at this point. Any idea what this means?

[madodel]

OK lowering the RAM assigned to the guest got it a lot further but then it filled up my drive and the install bombed. Guess the days of an operating system using less then 1GB are gone. Now I need to find more disk space to try this.

[Yoda]

"Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM..

There is still 446MB of Free RAM available at this point. Any idea what this means?

It is a known issue on TODO list. If you allocate more than 300MB
to the Guest, it will start using your Shared mem. That will end
with either the msg you see, when you have no more shared mem,
or you will crash your host system, because of missing shared mem.

Limit the Guest to 300MB

[madodel]

Thanks for the reply. Does that 300MB limit apply to all hosts or just OS/2?

Mark

[Yoda]

Thanks for the reply. Does that 300MB limit apply to all hosts or just OS/2?

I have no idea about *all* other hosts; but I think this is just an OS/2 problem.

[hovh03]

This hits me today, on a 4 Gig Windows Server 2003 machine. I can't even allocation 2 G on the guest, even there is plenty of memory left. I don't remember seeing this on Windows XP.

[fivestar]

Thanks Yoda. I had the same error. Allocating 299mb for Base Memory fixed the issue. !!