How to enable PAE Mode ?

[jashsayani]

I am using VirtualBox 2.0 on my Mac OS X Leopard. I want to install another copy of Leopard on the VM. On booting, I get an error that says to enable PAE guest mode.

How do I do it ??


Thanks.

[jrv]

Select the VM in the list of VMs and click Settings->General->Advanced and there is a checkbox for PAE.

[jashsayani]

Thanks a lot.

[toddabraham]

I've been trying to enable PAE Mode using 2.2.0, and the PAE/NX Mode shows Disabled, but the box to enable is greyed out and not available for selection. Anyone know why?

Thanks

[miatthas]

I have VB 3.2.8, and I'm tying to enable PAE mode.
I followed the instructions on the other posts, but it doesn't seem to work

Thanks

[Sasquatch]

It's now in System > Processor. Please, check the complete VM settings before complaining where to find something. Reading the manual is a must in this case, we have it for a reason .

[mytsrplx]

The way I see it, miatthas wasn't complaining...

The error message that's thrown by VirtualBox (3.2. still states that you need to go to Settings>General>Advanced to resolve that error and that's where most people will check first. (just like I did) When something is a-miss then people turn to forums...

If I was in any way a coder I'd help-out, but I'm not so hopefully someone on the dev team can fix the error pop-up to show the correct path to remediate this error message.

[Sasquatch]

That 'issue' is already addressed. Mattias stated that he followed the instructions here, but check the post date: 2008! That's a few dozen versions back. A lot has changed over time, so when you see in a post from a year or older that feature x is at location y, you need to be smart enough to know that it will probably not be there any more and you should check the official documentation for your version instead.

[mytsrplx]

Ok... dude's last post with the screenshot was August 12, 2010 and I get the same popup saying "PAE support can be enabled using the VM settings (General/Advanced)." when I don't enable PAE (obviously)
I'm running 3.2.8 r64453 on a Windows host box so while it's not a nightly build or anything, it's still the latest stable release available as I d/l'd it today.
Yes, the error message can be made to go away by clicking the pretty buttons in the order the manual tells us to, but the pop-up error message is still providing the old way of doing things and that's confusing people. (which was my initial point)
I'm going back to my cone of seclusion...

[Sasquatch]

If the dialogue is wrong, open a bug report for it in the Bugtracker (separate account needed). Only then will it get the attention of the devs and can be fixed.