Hi I run VBOX with 1.4GHz Pentium-M and 768Mb/RAM and it works fine with less resources than you, I can even run Solaris as guest, slow but works, XP works, Linux works, FreeBSD works...
Maybe you have a damage in your system or misconfiguration in your VBOX, maybe you should try to uninstall and reinstall latest version, erase your .virtualbox with all its virtual disks and reinstall WinXP again... Once it works compress and backup your VDIs (burn your virtual disks on DVD), so when it gets damaged or you need to free space simply remove the image and when you need it just restore it with as if it was just installed :) If it does not work try to update your kernel... What distro and kernel you have? Take care > Hi, > > I've been a happy VMWare Workstation user for some time and thought I'd > try VBox because I expected the OpenSolaris guest support to be a bit > better. > > And it is - when VBox works at all. > > I run a portable with 1.25GB RAM, XPsp3, and a 1.5GHz Pentium-M > processor. Its not shiny and new - but it works and runs VWare just fine. > > What I'm finding is that quite often VBox seems to sulk when I try to > start up a VM - sometimes it spins, and sometimes it just does nothing. > > As I write I have a failed startup in the background. Its using no CPU > at all but is unresponsive and making no progress: it has displayed the > little 'Restoring virtual...' progress meter but that's stuck at 0%. > I've got 398MB committed and the OpenSolaris VM *will* want 768MB but > there's enough swap space and there's no sign of it trying to allocate > any memory. The main application window (with the list of VMs etc) is > 'Not responding' and is failing to repaint. > > Its really trying - when it works its really good, but any attempt to > start or restart after a hibernate etc seems to leave it stuck most > times, and it *sometimes* happens after a full reboot. Happened with > 2.0.6 and 2.1.0. > > Anyone else seeing anything like this? > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
