VBox winXP stopped working - win7 host

[jheoaustin]

Hi VBox experts,

I have been happily using VBox for a while, then winXP guest suddenly stopped working tonight. Below is the log, and it looks like suffering memory allocation issue, which I saw before I made this work. As I don't remember any change to VBox setting recently, I am left clueless. Please review the log below, and suggest me what to try. Thank you.

[mpack]

00:00:08.483 Guest reported fixed hypervisor window at 0x00000000f6400000 (size = 0xc00000, rc = VINF_SUCCESS)
00:00:09.604 PGM: Failed to procure handy pages; rc=VERR_NO_MEMORY rcAlloc=VINF_SUCCESS rcSeed=VINF_SUCCESS cHandyPages=0x1f
00:00:09.604 cAllPages=0x444a5 cPrivatePages=0x12212 cSharedPages=0x0 cZeroPages=0x32290
00:00:09.604 GMM: Statistics:
00:00:09.604 Allocated pages: ddad
00:00:09.604 Maximum pages: 4009e
00:00:09.604 Ballooned pages: 0
00:00:09.605 PGM: Failed to procure handy pages; rc=VERR_NO_MEMORY rcAlloc=VINF_SUCCESS rcSeed=VINF_SUCCESS cHandyPages=0x1f
00:00:09.605 cAllPages=0x444a5 cPrivatePages=0x12212 cSharedPages=0x0 cZeroPages=0x32290
00:00:09.605 GMM: Statistics:
00:00:09.605 Allocated pages: ddad
00:00:09.605 Maximum pages: 4009e
00:00:09.605 Ballooned pages: 0
00:00:09.605 VM: Raising runtime error 'HostMemoryLow' (fFlags=0x2)
00:00:09.605 AssertLogRel D:\tinderbox\win-4.1\src\VBox\VMM\VMMR3\VMM.cpp(1680) VMMR3EmtRendezvous: !pVCpu->vmm.s.fInRendezvous
00:00:09.605 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"
00:00:09.605 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'.

Most likely the cause is not something you are doing inside VirtualBox, it's some other application which is allocating and hogging memory. Look at your host process list for a memory hog. Google Chrome (actually the crash handler / reporter) is known as one of the usual suspects.