2008/8/14 Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 14 August 2008, Riaan Kok wrote: >> I'm testing VirtualBox 1.6.4 on a Windows XP host and don't want my >> VM(s) to get bothered by runtime memory allocation and fragmentation >> on the XP host. Does anybody have some advice on how to turn off lazy >> memory allocation? (from a quick google it seems like this was turned >> on by default some versions ago.) I don't see the option in the >> Settings menu, but maybe there's some undocumented .xml parameter to >> modify. > > VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME VBoxInternal/RamPreAlloc 1 >
Thanks! Tried that.. and don't quite see the difference I expected to see in XP task manager. I've added the setting to the VM name as well as to "global".. rebooted the host in the meantime.. checked that the variable gets retained.. Still the process for my Linux VM with 512MB RAM reports a "mem usage" of around 31MB, "peak mem usage" of around 38MB, "VM size" of around 66MB. The host has 1GB RAM, no VT extensions, by the way. What do you think: is this just XP being unhelpful, or am my expectations wrong (that 512MB + videoRAM would be allocated upfront), or might this setting not be getting applied in some way? my regards, R _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
