On Sunday, January 09, 2011 02:52:48 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
My test machine is an older laptop with 1GB of ram. I allocated 512 MB for the VM. It was also the default.
Most likely that it has too little RAM + swap. I got very slow installation when allocated RAM was around 750MB, which would be indication that it uses swap. Installation from Live CD has a problem even when it is started without booting into live system, most likely because installer loads the whole CD in order to access its content that is needed during installation. I would try DVD or NET installation on systems with relatively small RAM. Also for the host, you can load some lightweight desktop, turn off any system service that is not essential, then start Virtual Box and see how much RAM is used. After that assign more then 512 MB during installation and lower it after that. One 32 bit machine without running applications, even under KDE should not ask for more then 150-170MB. I just checked my old 32 bit box and it was about 160MB with KDE4. Under IceWM it is about 130MB that after some time drops to bit under 100MB. Virtual box is not large too, about 12MB is difference on 64 bit machine. It seems that I would be able to run virtual installation with assigned 1.2 GB to virtual machine (box is 1.5 GB) and still be able to use the host system without thinking how it will affect its stability. I'm sure that VBox will complain when so much RAM is assigned to virtual system, but it will not prevent me to use it. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org