Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

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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