From owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Sat Aug 1 05:38:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBDF29B1E21 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 2015 05:38:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-x233.google.com (mail-pd0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8FE61C9E for ; Sat, 1 Aug 2015 05:38:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by pdjr16 with SMTP id r16so53510545pdj.3 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:38:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=6+EL7eCSkLaWJZzdZO07/SlrZqIE9f3ZLmqX4vCYMak=; b=NxrGrL6ISruSytP4zStXJaDktaTyycgNdEqfXQN0+0kFeggVpwj6Gt7ucsD3bk3fRM 1kXRbksEUn0RIqMScmajwpJzTtBHmIwMtCYKvo7Ht0pfuRsM5zQsFu+fM4AiBN7nNlwZ NUid2xd1sOrGpOAo7v2SuuPEHKonRWGNNS91ss5NLOiUnZ4vO7AfVrwEvwIIRvsBfH3R YuGYmoFCP3U8jelXhXVk4l9KZ3UOmuvkSp0MhiLfs4T6VuL23qRbe7rfHUATE0YMN58B wMlAqy6/hJM5XLTuQHkWMnkq4e0YdfjinKxtaUHK9RsnMSaRITQ6iLuylpz07rRcKRxf Kvyg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.70.88.2 with SMTP id bc2mr14890843pdb.153.1438407489918; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.133.169 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:38:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 00:38:09 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: VirtualBox VMs with large amounts of RAM From: Adam Vande More To: Warren Block Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:38:11 -0000 On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Warren Block wrote: > It seems I can reliably lock up my 10-STABLE amd64 VirtualBox host by > giving a Windows 7 VM more than about 12G of RAM. The VM starts, the mouse > gets draggy and then the whole system hardlocks. This is on a system with > 16G total, so there should be plenty left for the host (no ZFS). > Does the VBox VM log reveal anything? -- Adam