Virtualbox Windows Xp guest os hangs - guru meditation

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stevescuba
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Virtualbox Windows Xp guest os hangs - guru meditation

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Hi, I have a quite fresh install of a Windows Xp install which is as a guest os in a Windows 8.1 virtualbox host. A few times the computer has just hanged and it doesn't respond anymore. After that when I try to start the virtual machine it gives me a "Guru meditation warning" and says that a critical error has occured. There are two usb-serial converters attached to the system if that makes any difference. The system has also crashed like this with one completely different usb-rs232 converter.

The log file is here: pastebin . com/diDJ9Lwu

Can anyone help me? Is the laptop (HP 255 G3) a problem? XP runs just fine when it runs normally.
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Re: Virtualbox Windows Xp guest os hangs - guru meditation

Post by noteirak »

Zip up the log file and attach it to the thread, do not post if offsite please.
00:00:07.758009 Host RAM: 3537MB total, 1226MB available
00:00:08.498757 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000040000000 (1 073 741 824, 1 024 MB)
00:00:08.499805 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000001800000 (25 165 824, 24 MB)
00:01:37.327988 Console: VM runtime error: fatal=false, errorID=HostMemoryLow message="Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM"
You're reaching the amount of free memory on your host which cause VBox to pause/crash. 1024MB + 24 MB + virtualization overhead > 1226MB
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