Re: [vbox-users] vboxdrv.ko does not load "automatically"

2009-09-01 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:07:34 +0100, Angel Tsankov wrote: Sorry, I do not get this. Did you really mean /etc/modules or /etc/modules.conf? (Neither of these files exists on my system.) And how should I add vboxdrv.ko? give "man modprobe" a shout. Should have everything you need. -- U

[vbox-users] VirtualBox and swap space

2009-09-01 Thread Andreas Höschler
Hi all, we encounter problems from time to time while starting vbox instances or running virtual boxes simply die for know obvious reason. For quite a while I had no idea why, until other processes on this Solaris box send out a "Virtual Memory exhausted" messages. This made be checking swap

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox and swap space

2009-09-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
vbox does not uses swap space at all. It keeps everything in system RAM. I don't understand Solaris, so I can't help you. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/v

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox and swap space

2009-09-01 Thread Peter Ondruška
It is common for virtual memory OSes (like Solaris) to save some least used memory pages to swap file (so-called paging--not swapping) and this is what you observed. I no longer use Solaris 10 but for ZFS cache it prefers to page in order to satisfy as big ZFS cache as possible. Maybe you want to d

Re: [vbox-users] vboxdrv.ko does not load "automatically"

2009-09-01 Thread Angel Tsankov
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:25:09 +0100 "Robert Bronsdon" wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:07:34 +0100, Angel Tsankov > wrote: > > > Sorry, I do not get this. Did you really mean /etc/modules or > > /etc/modules.conf? (Neither of these files exists on my system.) And > > how should I add vbo

Re: [vbox-users] vboxdrv.ko does not load "automatically"

2009-09-01 Thread Larry Finger
Angel Tsankov wrote: > Other suggestions? openSUSE has a "Modules Loaded On Boot" system configuration variable. Does Linux from Scratch have anything like that? If not, you might add "/sbin/modprobe vboxdrv" to boot.local. ___ vbox-users mailing list

Re: [vbox-users] vboxdrv.ko does not load "automatically"

2009-09-01 Thread Angel Tsankov
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:05:34 -0500 Larry Finger wrote: > Angel Tsankov wrote: > > Other suggestions? > > openSUSE has a "Modules Loaded On Boot" system configuration variable. My question was if it is normal for vboxdrv not to load "on demand", and not how to load it at boot time. If it is no

[vbox-users] Unable to create host-only interface on winXP 64 bit guest

2009-09-01 Thread Harsha Rai
[reposting.. to remove the word-wrap] Is VirtualBox supported on WindowsXP 64 bit? Hi,I'm using the latest installable bundle (from vb download page) virtualBox 3.0.4-50677-Win.exe (case ignored) to install on aWindows XP 64 Bit edition - HostMy guest is - Ubuntu Junty While doing inst

[vbox-users] high cpu usage, linux host xp guest

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Knight
So, I'm having a high CPU utilization problem. My XP Pro guest is running at ~50% CPU at idle on my Ubuntu 9.04 host. I found one bizarre solution to this, which is: Create another guest (without an OS - hell, without a disk seems to work too) and boot it. Leave the guest on the "FATAL: No boo