4.1.8 crashes during install of Fedora 16

[dbhinz]

I'm having a similar problem on OS 10.6.8. I downloaded and installed VB 4.1.8, installed the extensions and I'm now trying to install Fedora 16 x86_64. VB crashes if I try to verify the ISO file or if I skip that and try to install Fedora.

Attached is the last crash log.

Fedora 16 x86_64-2012-03-02-10-24-13.log

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I've noticed in the forums that other users are having some problems with VB 4.1.x on Mac OS X, should I downgrade to VB 4.0.x? If so, what is the process for doing that.

David

[Perryg]

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00:07:16.600 Console: VM runtime error: fatal=false, errorID=HostMemoryLow message="Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM"
00:07:16.600 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'.

This indicates that something is preventing VirtualBox from allocating and locking the memory that you specified in the guest settings. Since it looks like you have enough free RAM I would look at conflicting programs on the host. For instance Windows hosts were hit with a Google chrome issue that prevented using more than 1GB of memory for a guest.

[dbhinz]

I lowered the memory to 1 GB and the install worked. After installing I have raised the memory setting back up to 2 GB and Fedora is running fine.

Should I try to file a bug report on this? What other info can I collect?


David.

[Perryg]

Not a problem with VirtualBox. At least not at this time. As I said look for things on the host that would prevent VirtualBox from allocating and locking the memory.
You would need to turn off host programs and services one at a time but that is the only way I know to track this down.