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From: Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi@aon.at>
Subject: VirtualBox mangles memory
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:20:02 +0200
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On machines where VirtualBox is running, I get memory allocation errors.

'dd' aborts with 'dd: stdout: Cannot allocate memory'

'zfs send' aborts with 'internal error: Cannot allocate memory'

I have created https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195970
to track this.

Could a knowledgeable person please have a look into this?

FreeBSD 10.2, VirtualBox 4.3.30

-- Martin