Description of problem: It seems that qemu-kvm supports only 2G memory for guest on 32-bit systems, if I give it more than 2047MB, virt-manager doesn't report an error immediately, but a traceback after create the guest or when starting it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): * kernel-2.6.33.1-19.fc13 * libvirt-0.7.7-1.fc13 * python-virtinst-0.500.2-3.fc13 * qemu-0.12.3-6.fc13 * seabios-0.5.1-1.fc13 * virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup a i686 host system. 2. Create a Virtual Machine with more than 2047M memory(eg. 2048M). 3. Go next and start the machine. Actual results: A traceback with message: Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> internal error Process exited while reading console log output: qemu: at most 2047 MB RAM can be simulated Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1510, in do_install dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 798, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 899, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1147, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: qemu: at most 2047 MB RAM can be simulated Expected results: Friendly message when memory >= 2048, or upper limit for the memory-input textbox. Additional info: None.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 570902 ***