5.1.24-117012 excessive memory use

[socratis]

I was trying to test the EL7 version in VM but seem to be facing a issue running 64bit nested guests.

Yes, that would be correct. Nested virtualization is not supported.

[michael]

I was trying to test the EL7 version in VM but seem to be facing a issue running 64bit nested guests.

Yes, that would be correct. Nested virtualization is not supported.

You might try installing one of the EL7 RPMs on your Fedora system. We have not tested it, but it might work. (I assume this is a recent Fedora.)

[worteltje]

Same excessive memory use problem,
Sun Fire X4540 solaris 11.3 0.5.11-0.175.3.22.0.3.0, VBOX 5.1.24 build 117012(and extpack) and a Windows 10 1703 build 15063.48.3. client.

It took all the 32GB (6674M in 5.1.22). Giving the no more processes

VirtualBox-5.1.25 build 117099 solves the problem, great:
6471 janw 29 59 0 6680M 6578M sleep 15:29 1.93% VBoxHeadless


~/Download/VirtualBox/VirtualBox-5.1.25# /usr/local/bin/upgradeVB.pl SUNWvbox
Found in OS pkg: "SUNWvbox", "Oracle VM VirtualBox"
Found in VirtualBox-5.1.25-SunOS-amd64-r117099.pkg pkg: "SUNWvbox", "Oracle VM VirtualBox"
Found extpack: "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"
Found extpack: "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"
Program mode: upgrade "SUNWvbox"
Installed SUNWvbox: version=5.1.22 arch=(i386) revision=2017.04.28.17.36.115126
Want SUNWvbox: version=5.1.25 arch=(i386) revision=2017.07.20.16.25.117099
/opt/VirtualBox/VBoxManage extpack uninstall 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack'
/usr/sbin/pkgrm -n -a autoresponse SUNWvbox
/usr/sbin/pkgadd -a autoresponse -d VirtualBox-5.1.25-SunOS-amd64-r117099.pkg SUNWvbox
/opt/VirtualBox/VBoxManage extpack install 'Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.25-117099.vbox-extpack' --accept-license=715c7246dc0f779ceab39446812362b2f9bf64a55ed5d3a905f053cfab36da9e

[oddsocks]

I was trying to test the EL7 version in VM but seem to be facing a issue running 64bit nested guests.

Yes, that would be correct. Nested virtualization is not supported.

You might try installing one of the EL7 RPMs on your Fedora system. We have not tested it, but it might work. (I assume this is a recent Fedora.)

Unfortunately Michael it does not work (on F26). I'd already tried that before posting. No worries.

[frank]

Here is a 5.1.25 test build for Fedora 26. Please could you confirm that this build fixes your problem? Thank you!

[oddsocks]

Here is a 5.1.25 test build for Fedora 26. Please could you confirm that this build fixes your problem? Thank you!

Thanks for that Frank. Yes it also fixes the issue under Linux (F26), I know longer see any audio stream errors in the VM log. I do see that every VM which is powered off though ends up in the 'Aborted' state. Is that expected in this version or do you want any VM logs? Thanks.

[frank]

Here is a 5.1.25 test build for Fedora 26. Please could you confirm that this build fixes your problem? Thank you!

Thanks for that Frank. Yes it also fixes the issue under Linux (F26), I know longer see any audio stream errors in the VM log. I do see that every VM which is powered off though ends up in the 'Aborted' state. Is that expected in this version or do you want any VM logs? Thanks.

No, that's another problem. Hopefully the same problem which we fixed a few hours ago. May I ask you again to install another test build and confirm that after powering off, the VMs are not in 'Aborted' state anymore? The 'Aborted' state means that the VM crashed before the process terminated finally. Thank you!

[oddsocks]

No, that's another problem. Hopefully the same problem which we fixed a few hours ago. May I ask you again to install another test build and confirm that after powering off, the VMs are not in 'Aborted' state anymore? The 'Aborted' state means that the VM crashed before the process terminated finally. Thank you!

So far build 117187 has worked as expected. Guests power off normally and there's no memory leak. Thanks Frank.

[frank]

Thanks for the information!