VirtualBox: out of swap space

[Rusty Nejdl]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:37:39 +0200, Samuel Martín Moro
<faust64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to have a few BSD VMs (4.7, 5.5, 6.2, 7.2, 8.1)
> running under VirtualBox-OSE / FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-amd64
> 
> 
> First problem:
>   Sometimes, when I start a VM, all other running VM stop,
>   their status switch to 'abort' (or whatever the
>   traduction is, here it's "avorté").
>   Reading my /var/log/messages, I see a few
>   'pid xxxx (VirtualBox), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space'
> 
>   I've got 8Gb of RAM, and so assumed I wouldn't need any swap.
>   Was I wrong?
>   Have I to reinstall my server to add some swap?
>   (and if so, how much?!)

Samuel,

It is generally a bad idea not to have a swap partition.  I have 12GB
of memory and I even hit swap, though very little.

[tethys]:/home/rnejdl> swapinfo -h
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ada0s1b      4194304     4.5M     4.0G     0%

I have 4GB on mine and that is plenty.

I don't have answers for the below though.

Sincerely,
Rusty Nejdl

> 
> 
>   btw, my PC (home) have the same HWare (core i7 930, 8Gb DDR3)
>   I can run two 8.1-RELEASE (amd64 + i386), and two debian
>   while host is running compiz and all that gay stuff...
>   (ArchLinux x86_64)
> 
>   except VirtualBox, the server I'm having problems with, is
>   hosting some nfs shares and running ion2 (since VBoxVNC
>   segfaults... I need a WM). And that's it.
> 
> 
> Second problem:
>   When I'm creating a disk (in VirtualBox), and while there's
>   some scp or so running on other guests, these guests display
>   some gvfs errors, about not finding ad0.
>   Sometimes, they just halt, and wait I pressed a key to reboot.
> 
> 
> Third problem:
>   I already posted that on emulation this morning:
>   I can't boot FreeBSD-8.1-amd64. It's stuck in
>   'md0: preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> x bytes 0xsomewhere'
>   nothing else happend...
> 
> 
> I could have finished already if I just had installed a Linux
> host in the first place...
> I read so much posts recently, from FreeBSD/VBox users, saying
> everything's working just fine.
> I assumed it would be OK.
> Obviously not...
> 
> Is there some hope sticking with BSD?
> (if I can get rid of the swap and the 8.1 problems, it would
> be fine enough)
> 
> 
> I'm seriously thinking on dropping that BSD idea, and choosing
> some random linux to make it work... (and maybe, try xen...)
> 
> 
> What should I do?
> 
> Thanks for any advices.
> 
> 
> Samuel Martín Moro
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