Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

[Colin Paul Adams]

This isn't mentioned on the guest status page.

I went ahead and tried it anyway (32-bit). It works fine if I don't
specify -smp 2.

But qemu rejects -m 2048. -m 1024 is fine. I had over 3GB available
memory (I presume all the memory is pae-fixed to avoid both host and
guest paging - if I'm wrong, please explain) so I assumed this would
be OK.
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Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

[Avi Kivity]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> This isn't mentioned on the guest status page.
>
> I went ahead and tried it anyway (32-bit). It works fine if I don't
> specify -smp 2.
>
> But qemu rejects -m 2048. -m 1024 is fine. I had over 3GB available
> memory (I presume all the memory is pae-fixed to avoid both host and
> guest paging - if I'm wrong, please explain) so I assumed this would
> be OK.
>   

Are you running on a 32-bit host?  If so, try less memory (2047 might 
work, or perhaps less).

For real large memory you need a 64-bit host.

(btw, please update the guest status page)

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Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Avi" == Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes:

    Avi> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> This isn't mentioned on the guest status page.
    >> 
    >> I went ahead and tried it anyway (32-bit). It works fine if I
    >> don't specify -smp 2.
    >> 
    >> But qemu rejects -m 2048. -m 1024 is fine. I had over 3GB
    >> available memory (I presume all the memory is pae-fixed to
    >> avoid both host and guest paging - if I'm wrong, please
    >> explain) so I assumed this would be OK.
    >> 

Are you running on a 32-bit host?  If so, try less memory (2047 might 
    Avi> work, or perhaps less).

No - it's a 64-bit host with 8GB and a quad processor.
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Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Avi" == Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes:

    Avi> (btw, please update the guest status page)

I did, but the table formatting is displaying as data for the line I
added. I don't know why.

Could someone please fix it, and then tell me what I did wrong?
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Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

[Avi Kivity]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Avi" == Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
>     Avi> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>     >> This isn't mentioned on the guest status page.
>     >> 
>     >> I went ahead and tried it anyway (32-bit). It works fine if I
>     >> don't specify -smp 2.
>     >> 
>     >> But qemu rejects -m 2048. -m 1024 is fine. I had over 3GB
>     >> available memory (I presume all the memory is pae-fixed to
>     >> avoid both host and guest paging - if I'm wrong, please
>     >> explain) so I assumed this would be OK.
>     >> 
>
> Are you running on a 32-bit host?  If so, try less memory (2047 might 
>     Avi> work, or perhaps less).
>
> No - it's a 64-bit host with 8GB and a quad processor.
>   

Maybe the qemu binary is 32-bit?  What does 'file 
/path/to/qemu-system-x86_64' say?

What does qemu say to -m 2048?


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