hostmemorylow Error

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borrisl
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hostmemorylow Error

Post by borrisl »

Hello Virtualbox fans,

I have a Intel based, Windows 7 64bit host, with 6 gb ram.

If I allocate more than 1.5gb ram to the OS X Server guest everything works great..... for a while. Then I run up against the deadly "hostmemorylow" error. Even if I close every application and end every possible service AND it shows I have 2gb or greater ram free, I still cannot get out of pause and have to close the machine. I have it set at 1280 mb and so far everything seems ok (but slow). Any ideas? Is this a bug? Is cache not being cleared to the OS?
dmcgraw
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Re: hostmemorylow Error

Post by dmcgraw »

Are you running this on Mac hardware?
borrisl
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Re: hostmemorylow Error

Post by borrisl »

Windows 7 64 bit Host.
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Re: hostmemorylow Error

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borrisl
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Re: hostmemorylow Error

Post by borrisl »

Sorry about that. I had thought that OS X Server was ok to run as a guest. It was my understanding that the OS X Client was the forbidden fruit.
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Re: hostmemorylow Error

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