CentOS 5.2 crashes when installing it

Asked By Brittanie A Powell 0 points N/A Posted on - 08/11/2014

Hello there,

Cent OS 5.2 crashes when I want to install it. The error message is showed below and I didn’t find a solution for this on the Internet. Can any of you experts help me please to fix this ? I did something wrong ?

Thank you !

VirtualBox – Error

An error has occurred during virtual machine execution! The error details are shown below. You can try to correct the describe error and resume the virtual machine execution.

Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM.

Error ID: HostMemoryLow

Severity: Non-Fatal Error

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Answered By points N/A #180531

CentOS 5.2 crashes when installing it

Hello,

Your problem is related to the free RAM space on your PC. Some other processes are consuming a large portion of memory which makes less memory available for the virtual OS than the size indicated in its settings.

Press “Ctrl + Shift + Esc” to start Task Manager. Find out the process(s) that are consuming a lot of memory and kill them. Also, close any browser, media player or any other software that might use a lot of resources. The best choice will be closing all applications visible to free lots of RAM spaces. Close them from their interface.

Restarting your PC might also help free required RAM space. Also, change the RAM size of your virtual OS to a greater one.

Now, your problem should have solved.

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