F19 alpha and VirtualBox

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Thu Apr 18 10:39:21 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> On 04/18/2013 01:49 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> >
> > I cannot run any application, including anaconda. Perhaps if I let it
> > sit overnight anaconda might display, but then I'd have to wait a week
> > for it to install at this pace.
> >
> > I managed to get SSH running by starting in "3" and then switching to
> > "5". The process doing all the nothing is the loop device. The host
> > system is reporting very small I/O through iotop. Roughly 200kbyte/sec
> > reads of the ISO file every couple of seconds. I have tried switching
> > the CD device from IDE to SATA to no avail.
> 
> The problem is RAM.
> 
> I allocated 1 GB of RAM as my usual amount for any new VM. This works
> until X is started then it is bumping the 1GB limit. Any new app that is
> started is being OOM killed. Just sitting at a Gnome desktop consumes
> 950MB. I'm not happy about this increase in usage, but I'll save the
> complaining for another thread.

It's probably caused by debug kernel again... 

Jaroslav


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