El Capitan VM Settings

[andrewbluepiano]

Hi everyone,
I have a OS X El Capitan VM running on a Mac Pro Mid 2010 with 2 Quad-Core Xeons, 8GB memory, and 1gb Video RAM.

My issue is that if I try and change my VM's memory from 2GB to 4GB, or if I try and change the video memory, the VM will no longer boot. Anyone have any suggestions as to the best course of action, as my VM is really laggy?

[socratis]

• Change the settings of your VM.
• Start the VM.
• Record the error message. EXACTLY. Post a screenshot if you have to.
• Shut down the VM (if it hasn't aborted by itself).
• Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager.
• Select "Show Log..."
• Save it, ZIP it and attach it in your response.

[andrewbluepiano]

Here is the log.
Nothing is displayed on the screen.

[socratis]

Just as I thought so... You're running out of RAM in your host:

00:00:02.638849 Host RAM: 8192MB total, 4122MB available
00:00:02.791374   RamSize           <integer> = 0x0000000100000000 (4 294 967 296, 4 GB)
00:00:02.791877   VRamSize         <integer> = 0x0000000004000000 (67 108 864, 64 MB)

You don't have enough available memory to afford. May I suggest Memory Monitor or Menu Meters so that you know what's available on your system at any given time? If your host's "OS Release: 15.3.0" (as indicated in the log) is "El Capitan", you can't run the latter.

[andrewbluepiano]

Haha, that would have never occurred to me! I am on a school computer that is not exactly the fastest, so although I am not really doing much right now, I can see in activity monitor what the issue is coming from! Any input as to the reason I cannot raise the video memory? Or does the video memory not use the actual graphics cards memory, but the regular RAM?

[mpack]

Or does the video memory not use the actual graphics cards memory, but the regular RAM?

Video memory for a simulated graphics card comes (like all memory given to the VM) from your host RAM. Not from your host's graphics card.

[andrewbluepiano]

Ok, that makes sense, thank you for all your help! I really only use virtual box on my school computer, and have never used it for OS X guests.