Component should be ovirt-engine-setup but I don't see that option in the components list. Description of problem: engine-setup does not complete if the system RAM equals 2GB (2048MB). The exception from the log, and the error posted on the console, is "the minimum requirement is 2GB and the recommended is 4GB". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ovirt-engine 3.1.0-1.fc17 ovirt-engine-setup-3.1.0-1.fc17 How reproducible: Always unless physical RAM >= 2095MB Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have system with 2048 of RAM (Virtual Machine, physical) 2. Add oVirt 3.1 repo 3. Install ovirt-engine and related packages 4. Run engine-setup Actual results: engine-setup exits with "Error: not enough available memory on the Host. The minimum requirement is 2GB and the recommended is 4GB" Expected results: On a system with 2GB (2048MB) of RAM, the install should complete since it technically meets the minimum requirement. Additional info: ovirt 3.0 also exibits the same problem. I'm wondering though if the error message just needs clarification, or the check needs reworking. Looking over /bin/engine-setup, I see that engine-setup checks by using the "free -g" command, and I'm guessing for total memory rather than available. Using the "-g" option (IMO) leaves little flexibility in rounding, etc. I bumped the system up incrementally up to 2070MB of RAM and it still displayed 1GB of ram total to "free -g". That said, "free -m" at 2070MB of ram showed 2023 under total. System at 2071MB ram, free -m reports "2024", free -g reports "1". System at 2080MB ram, free -m reports "2033", free -g reports "1". System at 2095MB ram, free -m reports "2048", free -g reports "2". and engine-setup runs successfully. I have no idea where the other 47MB of RAM is going (12 to video? virtualbox default) but in a physical system you wouldn't be able to add memory like that. Can we add some flexibility for when the system allocates (or misreports?) available RAM?
Same issue here. Patch sent: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/6992
Thanks for working on that. I think this should make it a lot easier to avoid that error now.
Thank you for reporting.
Merged into master upstream; http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=commit;h=158b29b6d720417eb371a8ad9bfabf824c36d87c
This doesn't seem to have made it into 3.2 (or if it did, it's not working). Any chance this can make it?
the way i read the patch, it will allow installing on a machine with 0.95*2048MB of free memory, not available memory. i think the request here is to allow installing on a machine with 2048-128 (say, video card) MB of installed memory, not available memory.
availableMemory variable has the installed memory value. http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=blob;f=packaging/fedora/setup/engine-setup.py#l2176 Take my system as example: >>> print output total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3881 3666 214 0 0 1928 -/+ buffers/cache: 1738 2143 Swap: 3887 300 3587 >>> for line in output.split("\n"): ... result = re.match("Mem:\s+(\d+)\s+.+", line) ... if result: ... availableMemory = result.group(1) ... >>> print availableMemory 3881
Definitely included in the 3.2. If there is any issue with it, please let us know.
My apologies, I thought I only had the beta repo enabled, so when I ran "yum install ovirt-engine", it installed 3.1 from the Fedora repo and I didn't catch it until I went to the mailing list. Now that I have ovirt-engine-3.2 installed, I'll do some further testing. So far looks good but free -g did return 2GB so moot point. I'll shortly change to ~2000MB and see what happens.
when using a virtual machine to install ovirt, and specifying 4096MB as memory, setup will fail currently since the actual memory on host is less (~3800). so it should at least allow installing on a system with 3800.
3800 isn't enough based on the patch. 3800 = 92.7% of 4096. Amador made it 95%. What's taking up almost 300MB (almost 10%) of your allocated RAM? What does "free -m" return?
here is the vm output: (defined in engine as 4096mb) free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3831 3329 502 0 294 1261 -/+ buffers/cache: 1773 2057 Swap: 15999 29 15970 i would assume the delta is taken by qemu? for virt purposes? but i can't tell for sure.
iirc 4096 is the warning limit. fail limit is 2048.
changed after patch merged: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/13201/
big jump btw. 5% was supposed to be enough to most of the cases. New 4096MB limit is raising tolerance up to ~204MB, a considerable value imo. It's not a strong opinion, but I think we shouldn't bite the limit more than we currently do. And manual basedefs change is always possible for those who aren't able to meet the requirements.
as RC is built, moving to ON_QA (hopefully did not catch incorrect bugs when doing this)
Some feedback on this, based on 3.3 RC1. Looks good! The minimum RAM changed to 4096 (as Amador said), but the installer prompts the user with the minimum and recommended values, and asks if you want to install with less. Nice touch!
closing as this should be in 3.3 (doing so in bulk, so may be incorrect)