Page 1 of 1

Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 21:45
by Rzvy
Hello, I use VirtualBox 4.2 on CENTOS 6.4 x86_64 as a guest OS and I installed FreeBSD 64-bit using it.
But after I installed it reads only 4 GB of ram.
My chip is AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6320 and I don`t have a problem with cores, it reads the cores from the chip fine but the memory not.
What can be the problem ?

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 21:50
by Perryg
Post the guests log file (as an attachment)
See Online Users Manual for the location of the file.

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 21:58
by Rzvy
Is this the right one ?

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:06
by Perryg
VirtualBox actually sees all of the RAM and you have it set to run 64-bit. It looks like it must be a guest issue.

Is there any real reason why you are running as root?

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:08
by Rzvy
No, I`m running as root now because I`m only doing some testes....
So its actually reading all of my memory ? And I should ignore the message that appears ??

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:12
by Perryg
What message that appears?

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:21
by Rzvy
6701056K of memory above 4GB ignored.
This is the message that appears.
s24. postimg. org/rbmnxtuxh/untitled.jpg
And this is a picture of the message

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:37
by Perryg
Even removing the spaces does not return anything on you link so I could not see it.

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:40
by Perryg
Just attach the image here. (see upload attachment)

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:42
by Rzvy
Hmmm, strange for me it works.
But I writed the message:
6701056K of memory above 4GB ignored.

Tried allready to attach it but it`s to big.

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:48
by Martin
It looks very much like you are running the 32bit version "GENERIC i386" which can only address 4GB

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 22:54
by Perryg
It finally worked here too.

That message is from FreeBDS and it is because you are running the i386 version (as it shows in the window) which can not use more than 4GB.
You might be able to enable PAE in the guest settings and see if it does, but not sure.

Oh and just so you know. VirtualBox was not designed to be used in root. It torks the permissions when you try to change it to a normal user, meaning you can but you must know what you are doing.

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 23:00
by Rzvy
And how do I change the version ?

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 23:06
by Perryg
You download the 64-bit version from FreeBSD

Re: Problem reading memory

Posted: 10. Jun 2013, 23:11
by Rzvy
Ok, thank you for the help.