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Hi,

I have win 7 with vbox 4.2.12 r84980 and when I try to install guest debian-7.1.0-ia64-netinst.iso it gives error. I have enabled vm acceleration setting in bios. I have attached logs.

The end section of logs shows as below. log file is too large for attachment so am attaching zip version:

00:00:28.461188 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392} aComponent={Console} aText={The virtual machine is being powered down}, preserve=false
00:00:28.462166 AIOMgr: Preparing flush failed with VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED, disabling async flushes
00:00:28.487672 NAT: zone(nm:mbuf_cluster, used:0)
00:00:28.488171 NAT: zone(nm:mbuf_packet, used:0)
00:00:28.488181 NAT: zone(nm:mbuf, used:0)
00:00:28.488254 NAT: zone(nm:mbuf_jumbo_pagesize, used:0)
00:00:28.488660 NAT: zone(nm:mbuf_jumbo_9k, used:0)
00:00:28.488885 NAT: zone(nm:mbuf_jumbo_16k, used:0)
00:00:28.489009 NAT: zone(nm:mbuf_ext_refcnt, used:0)
00:00:28.507625 Changing the VM state from 'DESTROYING' to 'TERMINATED'.

VBox.log wrote: 00:00:04.410511 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:00:04.410512 !!
00:00:04.410513 !! Guru Meditation -1618 (VERR_PGM_PHYS_PAGE_RESERVED)
00:00:04.410528 !!
00:00:04.410554 !!
00:00:04.410554 !! {mappings, <NULL>}
00:00:04.410555 !!

Hmm. That's a new one on me, but it looks memory related to me. Basically I'd translate as "can't reserve enough physical RAM pages to create VM".

Now looking at how much RAM you have on your host...

VBox.log wrote: 00:00:01.175070 Host RAM: 3170MB total, 1107MB available
...
00:00:01.283217 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000030000000 (805 306 368, 768 MB)
...
00:00:01.283809 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000000c00000 (12 582 912, 12 MB)

So, your host has 1100MB free, and the top two items for the VM requires around 800MB. I would regard those numbers as dangerously close. You clearly were aware of RAM restrictions, otherwise I assume you would have tried more than 768MB for a 64bit guest OS.