From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Xen 3.0.1 Error creating domain: (12, 'Cannot allocate memory') Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:53:34 +1300 Message-ID: <4402CC1E.3050604@rimuhosting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi. I have a domU that refuses to start up. It reports an error allocating memory. There appears to be sufficient memory in dom0 as well as on the host. I can restart other domUs no problem. To resolve the issue I'm having to restart the whole server. Which is a bit disruptive. Details follow. Regards, Peter xm create -f /home/users/fullserviceasians2/params extra="init=/bin/bash" Using config file "/home/users/fullserviceasians2/params". Warning: The nics option is deprecated. Please use an empty vif entry instead: vif = [ '' ] Error: Error creating domain: (12, 'Cannot allocate memory') [root@host73 fullserviceasians2]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 192 173 19 0 17 56 -/+ buffers/cache: 99 92 Swap: 2996 6 2989 [root@host73 fullserviceasians2]# xm info system : Linux release : 2.6.12.6-xen0 version : #2 Fri Feb 3 22:40:46 UTC 2006 machine : i686 nr_cpus : 2 nr_nodes : 1 sockets_per_node : 2 cores_per_socket : 1 threads_per_core : 1 cpu_mhz : 1994 hw_caps : 078bfbff:e1d3fbff:00000000:00000010 total_memory : 8192 free_memory : 2902 xen_major : 3 xen_minor : 0 xen_extra : .1 xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32p platform_params : virt_start=0xf5800000 xen_changeset : Tue Jan 31 11:04:12 2006 +0100 8738:eff96462fde8 cc_compiler : gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2) cc_compile_by : root cc_compile_date : Sat Feb 4 01:05:28 UTC 2006