I’m running Sandbox 2.1 on VirtualBox 4.3.18.
If I assign more than 8 cores or more than 32 GB of ram, if freezes when booting.
Host1: Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter w/SP1
4x Intel Xeon E5-4640 (32 cores/64 threads) and 196 GB ram.
Host2: Windows 7, 2x Opteron 6272, 32 cores
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https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=64725&p=304765#p304765