VirtualBox 4.2.14 unusable

[Jimmy Kelley]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 05:46:18PM +0400, Mikhail Tsatsenko wrote:
> 2013/7/8 Jimmy Kelley <ljboiler at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey guys,
> >>>
> >>> Are you expecting the same behavior than me on VirtualBox 4.2.14?
> >>>
> >>> http://www.demelierdavid.fr/files/VirtualBox-Bug.png
> >>>
> >>> I just can't create a new virtual machine :-),
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Fix for this was done three days ago
> >> r321665<http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/emulators/virtualbox-ose/Makefile?revision=321665&view=markup>.
> >> Port is now at  4.2.14_1.
> >>
> >> Does it still fail for you?
> >
> > I'm seeing the same thing, 10-CURRENT r252987,   with r322456 of virtualbox-ose (4.2.16).
> > The "Memory size" dialog, when trying to create a new virtual machine, shows 0MB for the
> > max, the slider cannot be moved and the text box accepts input but appears to be ignored.
> >
> It is very strange. Could you please check that top utility shows
> correct amount of memory.
> 
> 
> --
> Mikhail

2Gb of RAM in my machine, and top reports:

74 processes:  1 running, 73 sleeping
CPU:  3.9% user,  0.0% nice,  4.5% system,  0.2% interrupt, 91.3% idle
Mem: 949M Active, 110M Inact, 266M Wired, 78M Cache, 96M Buf, 586M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 10M Used, 4086M Free

Jimmy