VB on Mac 10.7 max 3.5GiB of RAM usable for VM

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BarbaPeru
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VB on Mac 10.7 max 3.5GiB of RAM usable for VM

Post by BarbaPeru »

Hallo, I have a MacPro (2006) with 32GiB of RAM, I'm using VB 4.3.10. I cannot allocate more then 3.5GiB for a single VM. I'm using 64bit guest OS.

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Re: VB on Mac 10.7 max 3.5GiB of RAM usable for VM

Post by loukingjr »

It sounds like you are starting VirtualBox or 10.7 in 32bit mode.

see this... http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3773
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