Re: 3525MB RAM Limit

[Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>]

Read the list archives. A fix was discussed recently.

--Brian Jackson


On Monday 06 April 2009 21:59:24 Daniel Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a KVM host using Fedora 10 (x86_64) on 4x Quad-Core AMD
> Opteron(tm) Processor 8347 HE system with 16GB ram. I've created a
> Fedora 10 (x86_64) guest and allocated 8 CPUs and 8GB ram which I can
> see using 'virt-manager'. When I login to the guest, I can see the 8
> CPUs, but apparently, I only have 3525MB RAM (output from 'free'). At
> first I thought it was a 32bit problem, but I've double checked and
> the host and guest are both running 64bit architectures. virt-manager
> shows 50% ram usage which appears to be correct (4GB, out of 8). It
> also correctly recognises the 16GB available in the host machine.
>
> Is this expected? Will the extra ram become available once it is
> required? If not, does anyone have any Ideas for how I can fix the
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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