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 If [[QEMU with KVM|qemu]] is not available, VirtualBox reportedly has better
 performance.
 
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-31:
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+# Open Issues
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-31
 
     <youpi> I don't know what virtualbox does with hardware emulation, but
       gnumach is awfully slow to probe things there
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-09-28
+
+    <snadge> the problem is if i giveit more than 1855 it says truncating to
+      that
+    <snadge> so i give it that.. then it has kmem alloc error
+    <snadge> 1536mb same.. 1024 isok
+    <braunr> hum
+    <braunr> that's weird
+    <braunr> virtual box ?
+    <snadge> yeah
+    <snadge> i wonder what cpu features i should enable/disable
+    <snadge> pae ?
+    <braunr> make sure vbox doesn't count on the so called memory balloon
+    <braunr> pae isn't used except on xen
+    <braunr> disable apic
+    <braunr> enable host io cache in disk controllers
+    <youpi> do we have these written on the wiki?
+    <braunr> no because i didn't run into these problems
+    <braunr> but since i know the system well enough to avoid them in the first
+      place ..
+    <braunr> we need real users to report them
+    <braunr> i'm not sure we have anything about vbox in the wiki actually
+    <youpi> ./hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn
+    <youpi> we seem to have a page at least
+    <snadge> it seems to be okay with 1024MiB
+    <braunr> still weird
+    <braunr> looks more random than buggy with more memory
+    <braunr> do you have the exact error message you got during your previous
+      attempts ?
+    <snadge> no.. i should have taken a screenshot.. its easy enough to
+      reproduce though
+    <snadge> i'll wait until after its installed