Virtual Machine stops when memory is increased

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greatme
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Virtual Machine stops when memory is increased

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I had a Virtual Machine and I originally created it with 12000 MB of Guest Memory.
As an experiment, I changed the Memory to 9162 MB of Memory, and installed an application and changed some files.
Now I changed the Virtual machine Memory back to 12000 MB of Guest Memory and tried to restart it. The machine starts up but never gets to a graphics login.
What causes this? Why can I make the Virtual Machine memory smaller but not larger?

Host Box
Operating System: Solaris 10 Generic_150401-03
64 Bit Operating System, Memory: 32763 MB
Virtual Box Version: 4.3.4r91027
Virtual Box Extension is installed

Guest Box
Operating System: Solaris 11, 11.1
Memory: 9162 MB
Guest Additions Installed
frank
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Re: Virtual Machine stops when memory is increased

Post by frank »

That should work. Please check if VBox 4.3.8 RC1 fixes your problem.
greatme
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Re: Virtual Machine stops when memory is increased

Post by greatme »

This doesn't work. I installed the latest version of Virtual Box and the extension. The Virtual Machine says its running but the Solaris operating system stops before it gets to the graphic login and doesn't allow ssh. I don't see any interesting error messages
The last two lines in the logs are
00:00:16.636278 OHCI: USB Reset
00:00:16.636387 OHCI: USB Operational
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Re: Virtual Machine stops when memory is increased

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greatme
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Re: Virtual Machine stops when memory is increased

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I think I have most of the information above. I just installed VirtualBox 4.3.8r92456
I used the command "VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME "VBoxInternal/MM/CanUseLarger Heap" 1

Here is the log file
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Log file for stopped Virtual machine
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