Bug 506314

Summary:	Virt Manager does not show Proper RAM Usage
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Hiemanshu <himanshu.sharmaa>
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	Glauber Costa <gcosta>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	berrange, clalance, ehabkost, gcosta, markmc, quintela, virt-maint
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Description Hiemanshu 2009-06-16 16:39:46 UTC

Description of problem:
When using Fedora's inbuilt Virtual Mangaer for virtualization it does not show the proper percentage of RAM usage, i have one 1 GB ram allocated to a Windows XP VM and the ram usage is always 35% and if i change the RAM to 512MB virt-manager shows usage at 18%

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Virt-Manager 0.7.0

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new VM with Windows XP a Guest.
2. Install from ISO/Disc
3. Check memory usage from Virt-Manager.
  
Actual results:
RAM usage constant.

Expected results:
RAM usage should vary with amount of RAM being used by Windows XP Guest.

Additional info:
Problem occurs if any Windows Guest is used with

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-06-19 10:53:50 UTC

The 35% figure means that the guest is allocated 1GB of the hosts ~3GB of RAM.

It doesn't sound to me like there's a bug here.