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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.

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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.

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

The issue appears to be addressed in 2.1.2.