VirtualBox mangles memory

[Mark Felder]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015, at 06:20, Martin Birgmeier wrote:
> On machines where VirtualBox is running, I get memory allocation errors.
> 
> 'dd' aborts with 'dd: stdout: Cannot allocate memory'
> 
> 'zfs send' aborts with 'internal error: Cannot allocate memory'
> 
> I have created https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195970
> to track this.
> 
> Could a knowledgeable person please have a look into this?
> 
> FreeBSD 10.2, VirtualBox 4.3.30
> 
> -- Martin
> 

I'm not an expert, but I think this is known behavior. Virtualbox
requires a huge contiguous chunk of memory for the VM and that's
probably what you're running into.

Can you give more information about the specs of the server itself and
the amount of resources allocated to VMs?

-- 
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam member
  feld at FreeBSD.org