From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:00:19 +0200 Message-ID: <47C29FC3.1040509@qumranet.com> References: <47C13886.80409@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Colin Paul Adams Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Colin Paul Adams wrote: >>>>>> "Avi" == Avi Kivity 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? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/