Vbox 2.0.0 upgrade on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 blowing up

[Steven Davies-Morris]

David Fox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Steven Davies-Morris
> <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
> 
>> Good luck to you. As soon as I get the kids off to bed I'm taking it
>> back to 1.6.4. Hopefully doing that won't be fraught with peril.
> 
> Well, after a bit of playing (and don't do a whole lot like try and
> setup a new VM while an existing VM is running - vbox 2.0 grew and ate
> most of my available ram and some of my swap. For a while there, it
> was very slow :). So I had to painfully close the open VM I had and
> firefox, and setup the new machine for intrepid alpha 64-bit. But
> after making sure that AMD virtualization had been enabled, it booted
> up a 64 bit intrepid ISO. Woo hoo!
> 
> (2 gigs of RAM is not quite enough these days). :(

LOL!  2gb is like being worth a million bux.  Once upon a time it was
*wow...really wealthy*, but there's not much cachet in it in 2008.
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