[ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

[doug livesey]

You're sort-of right -- I've got it working, now, by booting my Mac into the
64 bit Kernel.
Cheers,
   Doug.

On 12 May 2011 17:15, Paul Morgan-Roach <roachy at roachy.net> wrote:

>
> > On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey <biot023 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've
> > > given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again
> > > sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet
> > > seem only to be able to assign less than 4 gig to my ubuntu image in
> > > VirtualBox -- I'm guessing because VirtualBox isn't clever enough to
> > > figure out that I have two modules (both report okay in Snow Leopard).
>
> Can I hazard a guess that the installation media you used is 32bit?
>
> AFAIK you need to use a 64 bit OS / CPU to use more than 4Gb RAM
>
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