Disable VBox from swapping to pagefile when idle?


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1

    Disable VBox from swapping to pagefile when idle?


    How can I stop Windows from swapping the VirtualBox application's memory to disk when it's idle? It's a performance issue when my guest OS looks for data and it's not available - also since it makes use of its own sawp partition.

    Any ideas?
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  2. Posts : 5,941
    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #2

    Hi there
    Guest OS what is it ?
    If it's a Linux system you can disable any swap files by not specifying one in the first place.

    Make sure however that the GUEST OS has enough RAM allocated to it -- VM's just "Eat RAM for Breakfast".

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It is Linux - but my interest is disabling Windows from swapping any VBox data, and letting the Linux partition use its own native methods. I have 2x dedicated HDs in raid 0 to handle the entire virtual system, so any off-loading to the windows disk is redundant and not desired.
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