From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Jackson Subject: Re: 3525MB RAM Limit Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:46:42 -0500 Message-ID: <200904062246.42285.iggy@theiggy.com> References: <6835906b0904061959o674ec4f4rc136aea6db9a46d6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Scott Return-path: Received: from theiggy.com ([66.220.1.110]:55844 "EHLO mail.theiggy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751635AbZDGDni (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 23:43:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6835906b0904061959o674ec4f4rc136aea6db9a46d6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html