packer hangs when I set the memory size to 8196 - for creating virtualbox-iso about osx-vm-templates

[timsutton]

I've heard reports from @chilcote before that he had a similar problem - at least, SSH not responsive - with VMware Fusion as well once he bumped the RAM size up to 4096.

This all seems odd, given that I can make an OS X VM manually with plenty of RAM and it functions as expected.

[chilcote]

The vmware-vmx provider seems to work irt to ssh with >2048 set.

[mattieb]

This seems to be a VirtualBox problem. I can't create a straight OS X VM with 4 GB RAM either—it simply fails to boot.

[cybertk]

I fixed this by increasing vram to 128mb

["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--vram", "128"]

[mattieb]

I wonder if this is what was causing the problems referenced in PR #49.

On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:37 PM, cybertk [email protected] wrote:

I fixed this by increasing vram to 128mb

["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--vram", "128"]
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[mattieb]

This is a different problem than #49, but it is true that the box finishes booting if it has 4096 MB RAM and at least 128 MB VRAM. 64 MB VRAM didn't work. Build is still running; I'll see how that goes.

[mattieb]

The above-mentioned build went fine. It did not solve the ARD problem (I'm perpetually on the lookout for a fix for that… but I digress.)

I would be okay with bumping up the VRAM to 128 MB (which is the maximum) by default, to make adjusting the RAM size less obtuse.

[timsutton]

Thanks all!