4gb memory issue: when will it be resolved?

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parallelsisc00l

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Just got a new Penryn Macbook Pro, running 10.5.2 + all updates.
Got 4 gb of memory specifically to run virtual machines comfortably, but
now I keep getting errors on allocating memory.
Build 5584. Machine name is blahblah.

Error is:
Apr 1 13:45:20 blahblah kernel[0]: [err in mmIo4gbCacheAllocB] : Failed to allocate page from 4gb cache -> ../host.Darwin/mm/io_memory.cpp:342
Apr 1 13:45:22 blahblah kernel[0]: [err in vtxSwitchOnCallbac] : VMXON failed (0x1, 0xffffffff_83542000, 0xd). -> vtx.c:468
Apr 1 13:45:22 blahblah kernel[0]: [err in vtxSwitchOnCallbac] : VMXON failed (0x1, 0xffffffff_bc081000, 0xd). -> vtx.c:468
Apr 1 13:45:36 blahblah /usr/sbin/spindump[2961]: process 2956 is being monitored

I see that this is a problem others are reporting. Idea of when it will be resolved?
I bet a number of people got more memory to make things work better, not worse.
 
parallelsisc00l said:
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I see that this is a problem others are reporting. Idea of when it will be resolved?
I bet a number of people got more memory to make things work better, not worse.
Click to expand...

past experience is that small is beautiful

my WinXp VM works well with 924 mb
but a 32g hardedisk only 20% full
allowing plenty of room for invisible temporary files

which OS in VM?

Hugh W
 
512 mb, WinXP pro
Doesn't always happen. If I start up parallels soon enough after rebooting,
it will make it. If I run for a while, it can't allocate it.
 
I have a MacBookPro 2.6 Ghz core 2 duo with 4Gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM running OS 10.5.2 and windows XP Pro as the guest. It worked great for three months. this morning after an apple update I got the


Parallels Desktop failed to allocate the specified amount of memory.
Please restart Parallels Desktop and try again.
To avoid this problem in the future choose from the menu: Parallels Desktop > Preferences. On the Memory tab select the "Enable virtual memory preallocation" option.

The above advice did no good.

Rebooting did no good.

This thread indicates a long standing problem

Any solution or is this a fatal flaw with Parallels?
 
this is one of the reasons I still run OS 10.4.11
since OS 5 or 6 or so Apple updates tend to break exisiting software
if a widespread BUG Parallels team will fix it ASP as they did when an apple update broke the shared clipboard


Hugh W



Safari si to 3.1.1 today
 
Hi,

same on my side with a MPB 15" / 2,4 GHz / Santa Rosa / 4GB-Ram:

I run a VM with XP with 768 MB of RAM, it works very well.
Raising the RAM to more than 1 GB didnt show any effect, I was a little disappointed .... well.

Also raising the graphics memory from 16MB to 64 MB didnt make the GUI more "fluid"... (in coherence mode)

greetz
dennis
 
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