Bug 457254 - Unable to create guests with 2047MB RAM on 64bit host
Summary: Unable to create guests with 2047MB RAM on 64bit host
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Woodhouse
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-30 15:22 UTC by Brenton Leanhardt
Modified: 2009-07-14 15:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 15:18:31 UTC
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Description Brenton Leanhardt 2008-07-30 15:22:59 UTC
Description of problem:
Unable to create guests with 2047MB RAM on 64bit host.

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

qemu-img-0.9.1-6.fc9.x86_64
qemu-0.9.1-6.fc9.x86_64
kvm-65-7.fc9.x86_64

Linux dhcp227-13.rdu.redhat.com 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21
01:09:10 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Host is a dell 7400 with 2 Quad core Xeon processors.  It has a total of 16GB of
RAM.

How reproducible:

Here's the qeumu command 
[root@dhcp227-13 qemu]# cat
/var/log/libvirt/qemu/bleanhar2-developer-workstation.log 
/usr/bin/qemu -S -M pc -m 2047 -smp 1 -name bleanhar2-developer-workstation
-monitor pty -no-reboot -boot c -kernel
/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.XP3gxQ -initrd
/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.JS0iqL -append ksdevice=eth0 lang=
text
ks=http://10.11.227.192/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/bleanhar1-developer-workstation
syslog=10.11.227.192:25150 kssendmac 
method=http://10.11.227.192/cblr/links/Fedora-9-i386/ -drive
file=/images/bleanhar2-developer-workstation-disk0,if=ide,index=0 -net
nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:20:2d:51,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=15,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet1
-serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 
Could not allocate physical memory
  
Actual results:

Could not allocate physical memory

Expected results:

64 bit KVM hosts should be allowed to have > 2GB of RAM 


Additional info:
Under 32bit F9 2047MB is the limit.  I can boot this VM just fine when using
32bit F9.  Under the 64bit host if I lower the Guest RAM to 1024 it starts as
expected.

I switched to 64bit because the KVM docs say that > 2GB is possible.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 02:18:17 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 15:18:31 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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