VirtualBox VMs with large amounts of RAM

2015-07-31 Thread Warren Block
It seems I can reliably lock up my 10-STABLE amd64 VirtualBox host by giving a Windows 7 VM more than about 12G of RAM. The VM starts, the mouse gets draggy and then the whole system hardlocks. This is on a system with 16G total, so there should be plenty left for the host (no ZFS). Is this

Re: VirtualBox VMs with large amounts of RAM

2015-07-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Warren Block wrote: > It seems I can reliably lock up my 10-STABLE amd64 VirtualBox host by > giving a Windows 7 VM more than about 12G of RAM. The VM starts, the mouse > gets draggy and then the whole system hardlocks. This is on a system with > 16G total, so t