Re: [kvm-devel] kvm causing memory corruption? ~2.6.25-rc6

Dave Hansen
2008-03-27T14:55:09Z

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:10 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> btw, is this with >= 4GB RAM on the host?

Well, are you asking whether I have PAE on or not? :)

The host has 4GB of RAM exactly, but there are some serious BIOS holes,
so I needed PAE because about a gig of it is mapped >4GB.

[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d800 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009d800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 00000000000d4000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bf6b0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6b0000 - 00000000bf6cc000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6cc000 - 00000000bf700000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000013c000000 (usable)

-- Dave