Virtual Disks Getting Left in Paused State-Will Not Resume

[Jerimiah33]

Virtualbox

[Sasquatch]

If VB pauses a VM, it always gives the reason why it does this. E.g. low on disk space, or out of RAM for the Host. Please state the reason of the pause.

[Jerimiah33]

virtualbox

[Sasquatch]

Check what other applications you are running and how much physical RAM you actually have. VB will only use physical memory, not virtual. So let's say you have 2 GB of physical RAM and an additional 2 GB set as pagefile, you may think you have 4 GB of RAM, but in fact you don't. Normal programs can use the pagefile for storing memory, but VB explicitly needs physical RAM.

[honglinsu]

I'm running Virtualbox 2.1.0 on Win XP SP3 host. My laptop has 4GB physical memory.

I run RHEL 5.2 as the guest (2GB, 1.5G, or 1GB memory), but it hangs right before the user login screen.
- It used to be fine when using 2.0.6.
- When click the close VM button, the VM can resume to login screen, but sometimes it may crash with the error: "Faulting application virtualbox.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module vboxdd.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x0002fbde".

My other VM (Ubuntu 8.10) works fine. Not such issue at all.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

[honglinsu]

The issue appears to be addressed in 2.1.2.