On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 10:29, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > > Except with PAE (Physical Address Extensions), the CPU is effectively > > > 36 bit. Giving a theoretical address range of 64GB. In practice > > > however, once you go past 4GB, your low memory region (0->896MB) > > > becomes filled very quickly with structures that _have_ to live > > > in that range, and all sorts of problems can occur (typically page > > > allocation failures, oom-kills). > > > > Could this cause a problem with VMware on a machine with exactly > > 4 gigs? I have one box where vmplayer will not run a windows > > 2k or xp virtual machines (hangs about 3/4th's of the way through > > booting), but some similar boxes with less ram work fine. > > No idea, I don't use vmware :-/ Try it - you'll like it with the free vmplayer. If you want something to get some test exposure you can build a virtual machine already configured that anyone can download and run without having to worry about repartitioning or setting up multi-boot configurations. The 'browser appliance' virtual machine available with the player is actually a basic Ubuntu install but you can 'apt-get' anything else you want into it. > But a hang sounds like something completely different. It's the virtual machine that hangs, and only ones running windows. The odd thing is that I have similar but not quite identical machines where it works fine but the one I'd really like to use has the problem. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
