You're sort-of right -- I've got it working, now, by booting my Mac into the 64 bit Kernel. Cheers, Doug.
On 12 May 2011 17:15, Paul Morgan-Roach <roa...@roachy.net> wrote: > > > On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey <biot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've > > > given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again > > > sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet > > > seem only to be able to assign less than 4 gig to my ubuntu image in > > > VirtualBox -- I'm guessing because VirtualBox isn't clever enough to > > > figure out that I have two modules (both report okay in Snow Leopard). > > Can I hazard a guess that the installation media you used is 32bit? > > AFAIK you need to use a 64 bit OS / CPU to use more than 4Gb RAM > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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