Host memory low

[kavi_patnii]

I'm having a problem creating a new virtual machine. I was trying to install a GIS free software (Inisig).

ID error: HostMemoryLow

How can I solve it?

Thanks,

PS: This is the VBox.log:

[mpack]

Please post log files as zipped attachments, don't just paste the text, as that only makes for truncated logs and irritatingly large messages. I have fixed it for you this time.

Happily, being truncated wasn't a problem with this log because the problem is obvious right at the start.

00:00:03.752368 Host RAM: 510MB total, 210MB available
...
00:00:04.260786 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000040000000 (1 073 741 824, 1 024 MB)

You are assigning 1024MB for the exclusive use of the running VM, however 1024MB is twice the total RAM of your host, and almost 5 times the amount of RAM actually available. 128MB is probably the largest VM you can run on this host (and even then probably not smoothly, since I assume it only has a single core). It isn't clear to me what OS you are trying to install, but 128MB would be a tight fit for any modern OS (XP and later). Windows 2000 might be happy.

[stefan.becker]

Forget virtualization. With 512 MB XP does not work very well alone. At least 2 GB are needed.