[Solved] Guru Meditation Vista Home

[Olfatguy]

Greetings
I have a new install Windows Vista Home Pre 32-bit as guest. I have Windows 7 Home Pre 32-bit as host. My Computer is an Inspiron 1525, 3G ram, T5800cpu without Virtualization support. Virtualbox Ver 4.3.18. Host RAM between 1024 and 1500MB (I have played with different settings). The first day I installed Vista it ran fine. The next day every time I try to get Windows Updates it crashes. I know my computer is a little low on resources but take a look and see if you can help me.
Thanks Olfatguy

[loukingjr]

See this thread... viewtopic.php?f=6&t=64111

[mpack]

You're getting the VERR_TRPM_DONT_PANIC issue which seems to have been introduced recently. It seems to happen on a VM which has VT-x enabled in the settings on a host that doesn't support VT-x. Try running the following on the VM :-

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VBoxManage modifyvm "Windows Vista Home Pre Virt" --hwvirtex off

Repeat for any other VMs.

p.s. Only one log file is required. I deleted the redundant one.

[Olfatguy]

OK I applied the VBoxManage command as instructed. It was a little tricky figuring out how to navigate the VBoxManage tool, but I figured it out and everything is good.
Thanks
Olfatguy

[Olfatguy]

Spoke to soon. I opened guest OS Vista, navigated to windows update,and started downloading 159 updates. All seemed ok so I let the computer run all night. When I got up this morning the computer was stuck installing 4 of 159 updates. I am away from my computer at the moment but I will clear the logs tonight, retry this, and send a new log file.
Thanks Again

[mpack]

If the guest application hung then that is most likely a different problem.

[Olfatguy]

Well I have been running this thing and everything seems good. Maybe it just needed a good ol reboot. I will attach a log. Take a look and see if you see anything that looks out of place.

[mpack]

I will attach a log. Take a look and see if you see anything that looks out of place.

I certainly can. In fact I'm surprised this runs at all.

00:00:04.021479 Host RAM: 3062MB total, 1378MB available
...
00:00:04.547441 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000058700000 (1 483 735 040, 1 415 MB)
00:00:04.548236 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000002800000 (41 943 040, 40 MB)

You are overcommitting host memory. If you're lucky performance will be bad. Most often the VM will crash at some point.

The rule of thumb is that you don't allocate more than 50% of your available RAM to a VM. With 1378MB available that would mean no more than 700MB to the VM. This arithmetic is not changed by saying that the guest OS you chose wants more than that. It can only be changed by freeing up host RAM or adding more host RAM.