From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Bareiro Subject: Re: KVM RAM limitation Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:08:33 -0300 Message-ID: <20100203190833.GE6798@defiant.freesoftware> References: <20100203155541.GC6798@defiant.freesoftware> <201002031148.02107.iggy@theiggy.com> Reply-To: dbareiro@gmx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kfjH4zxOES6UT95V" To: KVM General Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:50496 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757047Ab0BCTI7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:08:59 -0500 Received: from defiant (defiant.freesoftware [10.1.0.65]) by hermes.freesoftware (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0671C1D7 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:08:47 -0300 (ART) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002031148.02107.iggy@theiggy.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:48:01 -0600, Brian Jackson wrote: > > I'm trying to boot a VM with 2048 MB in a VMHost with Linux 2.6.32.6 > > and qemu-kvm-0.12.2, but when doing it, I obtain it the following > > message: > >=20 > > qemu: at most 2047 MB RAM can be simulated. > Are you sure you enabled KVM? Are you sure you are using the KVM > binary and not some QEMU binary that's sitting around. This is one of > those situations where the KVM command you are running might help. > Also the same binary you are running's version ($QEMU_BIN -h | head > -n1) wilson:/usr/local/qemu-kvm/bin# ./qemu-system-x86_64 -h | head -n1 QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.2 (qemu-kvm-0.12.2), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 = Fabrice Bellard The procedure that I used to compile qemu-kvm is the same of always: to download qemu-kvm-0.12.2, to install the packages (Debian) zlib1g-dev and libpci-dev, and to compile of the following way: # cd qemu-kvm-0.12.2 # ./configure --prefix=3D/usr/local/qemu-kvm # make # make install Until the moment I never got to use qemu-kvm with VMs of more than 2048 MB. In an installation that I have with KVM-88 and kernel x86_64 I don't have this problem. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Daniel --=20 Daniel Bareiro - System Administrator Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Lenny - Linux user #188.598 --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktpybEACgkQZpa/GxTmHTcg9ACeMY9wwTXG/WdzsyfUdkV00xAW KX4An3C1HQGP+zH+qzKhHjW/G6uTQA3z =Stx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V--