> 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
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