Guest Memory is equal to host memory

[06dragon]

Hi,

After installing antivirus in Win 8 machines, guest memory usage has been equal to the host memory. (image attached)

This is causing some serious issues as I can't login in VM. As soon as I supply login credentials, VM just get restart before preparing desktop.

I am also getting an Alarm as VM Memory Usage.

Please help

Thanks

Ashish

[Linjo]

It looks like it consumes all 2Gb that it has been allocated, maybe the antivirus-software is using it?

Either give the machine more memory or uninstall the antivirus software.

2Gb for a Windows8 machine is a bit on the low side anyway...

// Linjo

[06dragon]

Thanks for your reply. I also thought same, but the thing is that I have 10 VM with same conf and same OS. Out of 10 only 3 are having this problem. I can't login in side VM in any way to view running process or uninstall the antivirus, because VM get restart before preparing desktop.

Thanks

Ashish

[a_p_]

I don't have a Windows 8 system to test this at the moment, but you may want to see whether you can use the tasklist command from another system to see which tasks are consuming resources!? (taskkill can be used to kill tasks)

André

[06dragon]

I used task list, and PS Exec as well. But couldn't succeed.  Those VM have gone out of network because of this.

[Linjo]

Try to boot the OS in safe mode.

So to be clear, the machines worked fine without any issues and then you installed antivirus and then the problem appeared?

Any other changes from the known working state to the current state?

// Linjo