Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:49:29 -0000, pac <[email protected]> wrote:
2010/2/18 Alexey Eremenko <[email protected]>:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Rehan <[email protected]> wrote:
VirtualBox is limited to 1.5 GB of RAM on 32-bit Windows hosts.
And on 32-bit Linux hosts ?
If you have PAE running (ie. your host can see all your RAM) then VBox
will access it. If you host can only see <4GB of it the VBox will limit
to <4GB.
P.S. VBox does not, I may stand corrected on this, 'limit' to 1.5GB
Memory allocation but puts a warning at anything above 50% of the hosts
available memory.
In some sense you're right, and in some sense you're wrong. VirtualBox
on 32bit host OS has a hard limit PER VM (on Windows 1.5G, on Linux you
can use more, almost 2G depending on the kernel config). If you run
several VMs you can of course use whatever the host has.
P.S.S. The 3GB limit is not actually 3GB. It is (4GB -
all_other_required_memory_on_the_system) this 'all other' includes CPU
cache, gfx RAM etc. it is a limit that 32bit OSs have without PAE.
Klaus
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