[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#612202: virtualbox-ose: Starting the VirtualBox Manager makes currently running VMs "eat" all the memory

[ProgVal]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 4.0.2-dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Hello,

I have VirtualBox for awhile and it worked fine... then I updated it several
days ago.

If I have a virtual machine running, and I start the VirtualBox Manager
(Application > Accessories > VirtualBox OSE), the VM process (not the manager)
"eats" all the host's memory, including SWAP, that causes a very big latency.
Then, when all RAM (3GB) and SWAP (8GO) are used, the process is killed by the
host operating system.
When I start the VirtualBox Manager again, the virtual machine(s) is displayed
as "avorted".

The problem happens with all my virtual machines; they shouldn't use more than
256MB or 512MB memory.

Best regards,
ProgVal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc6-progval1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcurl3                7.21.3-1         Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-10       GCC support library
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.44-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpython2.6            2.6.6-8+b1       Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.7.1-2        Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.7.1-2        Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6.1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8o-4         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-10         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvncserver0           0.9.7-2+b1       API to write one's own vnc server
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-4        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.11-1       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.2-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                 2.7.8.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                 2:1.1.0-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-central          0.6.16+nmu1      register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]    7.7.1-4      A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libqt4-opengl               4:4.7.1-2    Qt 4 OpenGL module
ii  virtualbox-ose-dkms         4.0.2-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - kern
ii  virtualbox-ose-qt           4.0.2-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - Qt b

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
ii  libasound2                   1.0.23-2.1  shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libpulse0                    0.9.21-3+b1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii  vde2                         2.2.3-3     Virtual Distributed Ethernet
pn  virtualbox-guest-additions   <none>      (no description available)

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