another guru mediation error - VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT

[atschnable]

Greetings,

I am crashing out while booting. I think this started shortly after taking a windows 7 update in my VM. The VM is hosted on macos. I've fooled around a bit adjusting memory allocations and updating virtualbox to the latest release, but the problem persists. Anyone have any ideas?

I've now properly attached the zipped log.

[socratis]

Please edit your message. Delete the three logs. Replace them with one ZIPPED log from a complete VM run:

• Gathering the necessary information:
  1. Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state).
  2. Observe the error, i.e. the Guru Meditation.
  3. Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
• With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.

[atschnable]

My original description said this happened while booting - it is very late in the boot process - well past the splash screen while the startup items are running.

Andrew

[andyp73]

00:00:03.421802 Host RAM: 8192MB (8.0GB) total, 1936MB available
00:00:04.020762 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000100000000 (4 294 967 296, 4 096 MB, 4.0 GB)
00:00:04.021435 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000002000000 (33 554 432, 32 MB)

With numbers like these we would normally say that you have allocated memory to the guest that you don't have available on the host and recommend that you either: a) allocate less memory to the guest, b) close some applications on the host, or c) buy some more memory for the host. With the way macOS caches this may not exactly always be the case. I would however set the RAM to 1GB and the VRAM to 128MB.

-Andy.

[atschnable]

That was probably me in trying to see if this was memory related - when the problem was first seen, I was allocating 2M to the VM (and had been running like that for several years). Let me try your recommendation and see what happens. Thanks!

Andrew