Re: Support for more than 2GB RAM in guests.

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Kiselev, Sergey wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Any plans to add support for guests with more than 2GB RAM?

No immediate plans, but of course I'd like to have that limitation lifted.

>  
> I tried to fix obvious limitations, e.g. to change ram_size and 
> phys_ram_size variables from 'int' to 'unsigned long' type.
> Now I am getting 'init_rmode_tss: gfn_to_page failed' error from KVM, 
> so probably KVM kernel module needs to be fixed also.

I'd expect kvm to be 64-bit clean (esp. with a 64-bit host).  Did you 
check in kvmctl.c whether the memory slot created was actually > 2GB?  
Maybe there are further places in qemu/libkvm that need fixing.


>  
> Thanks,
> Sergey
>  
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