FreeBsd as guest & Memory

Graff · Post by **Graff** » 17. Jun 2008, 16:17

i'm using vbox 1.6.2 on debain etch. having troubles with freebsd as guest.
freebsd 7.0
dmesg:
....
real memory = 68153344 (64 MB)
avail memory = 52686848 (50 MB)
...
and doesn't matter how much memory is set in VirtualOS settings.

does anyone else have this issiu too?

keithyau · Post by **keithyau** » 1. Jul 2008, 18:56

I have the same problem on using pfsense

anyone please kindly help us?

Napsterbater · Post by **Napsterbater** » 3. Jul 2008, 03:24

keithyau wrote:I have the same problem on using pfsense

anyone please kindly help us?

Same here in 1.5.6, 1.6 and 1.6.2

len · Post by **len** » 4. Jul 2008, 16:20

Hi,
Check out this post: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... highlight=
It worked for me. It basically boils down to edit loader.conf and add

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hw.physmem="12345678"

(Check out "man loader.conf" for details). In the post it can be seen that the difference between "realmem" and "physmem" is 13148160 bytes. Realmem is what you tell VirtualBox, physmem is what you tell FreeBSD. The latter is lower

. The poster used 32MB of slack, I used 16MB and it works fine.
Good luck