Bug 1320830

Summary: process exited while connecting to monitor: kvm_init_vcpu failed: Cannot allocate memory
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Venkateswara Rao Dokku <dvrao.584>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.0CC: dvrao.584, jtomko, rbalakri
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Description Venkateswara Rao Dokku 2016-03-24 05:20:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
While trying to launch a VM on RHEL 7, with the memory pinning to specific domain, I am getting the following error

error: Failed to start domain VM1
error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: kvm_init_vcpu failed: Cannot allocate memory

XML Snippet: 
<vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='8'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='9'/>
  </cputune>
  <numatune>
    <memory mode='strict' nodeset='1'/>
  </numatune>

If I replace the nodeset with '0', the VM was launching properly.
I have sufficient memory for both the NUMA nodes & all the NICs were attached to the NUMA node 1.
[root@localhost ~]# virsh freecell 0
0: 63849676 KiB

[root@localhost ~]# virsh freecell 1
1: 64732832 KiB


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@localhost ~]# virsh --version
1.1.1

qemu version: 1.5.3

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Comment 2 Ján Tomko 2016-03-24 10:08:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1010885 ***