MinocaOS startrer - can't set memory size more than 1024 MB

[melezhik]

start .\Qemu\qemu.exe -L .\Qemu -m 1024-hda .\Minoca\Image\pc.img -serial pipe:minocapipe -net nic,model=i82559er -net user

When I set -m to a number more than 1924 and then launch run.bat , starter does not up ( see no green terminal screen ). My Host OS has about 10 GB available memory though ...

[jelaev]

start .\Qemu\qemu.exe -L .\Qemu -m 1024 -hda .\Minoca\Image\pc.img -serial pipe:minocapipe -net nic,model=i82559er -net user
All good. Try set memory 1024.

[melezhik]

It fails when I set memory to -m 2048 for example.

[melezhik]

it even fails when set to -m 1050

[evangreen]

I would guess this is a limitation of the 32-bit Qemu that's bundled in the starter pack. Probably your best bet if you want to take advantage of that much memory is to use a VM like VMWare or VirtualBox. Head's up though that we're triaging some issues in issue #10 with some of those VMs, so maybe give us a bit to work through those issues.

[melezhik]

yes, no rush at all, btw could you give me a guide, if any on running Minoca OS on VirtualBox?

[evangreen]

I'll be giving it a try soon myself, I'll try to keep some notes for you. Closing this now as I think we've bottomed out on it.

[UncoolAsianDad]

@melezhik
this is how I got MinocaOS running on VirtualBox, it's more of a qucik hack.

https://gist.github.com/KawaniwaHikaru/4e78474ba0a3054576a3234765c746bf

[melezhik]

@KawaniwaHikaru , thanks, will take a look!

[melezhik]

I try use your instruction but I got this:

Kernel failure: 0x80000002
Subsystem : 6

When boot machine via Virtual Box

[melezhik]

Finally I found a genius "stupid" solution, and this is ... using qemu!

$ apt-get install qemu

$ qemu-system-i386 -m 5000 -net  nic,model=i82559er -net user pc.img