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Windows 10 on Virtual Box: Common causes and solutions for the memory allocation and locking issue a



I came across this issue when trying use virtualisation (virtualbox + vagrant) on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu 16.04 instance. Apparently, it seems it's not possible because Amazon decided to block that option - virtualbox installation will fail / you will get the message in the title when trying 'vagrant up'. As said in this article (a bit old, but convinced me):




Windows 10 on Virtual Box | Unable to allocate and lock memory | Virtualbox Guru Meditation error




Well, i faced similar issue and got the resolution in the below thread: =6&t=97578This was caused by me running docker desktop on windows 10, which uses windows SubsystemLinux and utilized Hyper-v to launch the Virtual env. This does not allow or makes Virtual box too slow to respond that the ssh times out and also results in File system errors.you should specially focus on the "turtle" icon which means Virtualbox too slow and i if everything is fine then you will see the "V" icon on virtualbox console. follow the instruction to stop hyper-v reboot the machine and it will work.To turn Hyper-V off completely, do this:


hi If you use the latest versions of virtualbox with extension pack, it will not work and the guru mediation logo appears.. So I used the old versions of the virtualbox and try to install in the mac osx server mode, it hangs up on the apple gray logo screen.. i tried to make execute disable option in the bios mode not available(enable -execute bit option prevents code seemed dangerous to install).still no luck., windows 8, toshiba satellite with intel i5 processors.any suggestions.. thankskrishna


00:00:15.520522 VM: Raising runtime error 'HostMemoryLow' (fFlags=0x2)00:00:15.520562 AssertLogRel D:\tinderbox\win-4.3\src\VBox\VMM\VMMR3\VMM.cpp(1756) int __cdecl VMMR3EmtRendezvous(struct VM *,unsigned int,int (__cdecl *)(struct VM *,struct VMCPU *,void *),void *): !pVCpu->vmm.s.fInRendezvous00:00:15.520581 Console: VM runtime: fatal=false, errorID=HostMemoryLow message="Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM"00:00:15.706940 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'.


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