From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: kvm-84 and guests with more than 3536 MB Ram? Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:59:55 +0200 Message-ID: <49C8D94B.9090709@redhat.com> References: <1237897377.10977.40.camel@vesuv.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Lukas Kolbe Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:49637 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752705AbZCXNAZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:00:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1237897377.10977.40.camel@vesuv.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Lukas Kolbe wrote: > Hi! > > This is my first post here so please bear with me; we have a Debian > Lenny system with kernel 2.6.28 and kvm-84, and can't start a guest with > more than 3536 MB Ram. With kvm-72 (the version lenny released with) we > can use all 7GB that is intended for that guest. > > Is this a known bug? Someone on freenode #kvm said he'd seen something > like this but couldn't remember where or when. > > Can you describe the failure? I just booted a guest (FC6) with 6GB, without issue (admittedly the guest is only using 300MB or so). -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.