Memory allocation failure trying to start Windows 2003 guest under CentOS 4.6

[UglyPercy]

Attempts to start a newly-created Windows 2003 Server 32-bit VM under VB 3.2.4 OSE failed, reporting memory allocation failure, even though the same VMDK's ran successfully under earlier VB versions. Host is a CentOS 4.2 variant. At the time the VM was started, "free" showed 10 GB of unused swap space:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      12302420   11998500     303920          0      29312   10538992
-/+ buffers/cache:    1430196   10872224
Swap:     10097128        452   10096676

[UglyPercy]

Log of failed startup

[Frank Mehnert]

There could be indeed a problem with such old kernels. Were you ever able to start a VM on that host?

[Frank Mehnert]

Did some tests on a CentOS 4.8 / amd64 host, so far I saw no problems.

[UglyPercy]

I was indeed able to boot this same Windows 2003 VMDK under VB 3.1.8, running on a CentOS 4.2 variant.