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From: |
Dan Streetman |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM |
Date: |
Fri, 04 May 2018 16:14:55 -0000 |
You don't need a >1TB host to spin up a >1TB guest. Unless you're using
pci passthru (and/or SRIOV), or something else that requires qemu to
alloc and pin all guest mem, you can simply overcommit; normal guests
don't require mem pre-allocation or pinning.
On your host do this to allow overcommitting such a large amount (this
allows 16T but can be adjusted as needed):
$ echo $[ 16 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ] | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_kbytes
17179869184
$ echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
1
Then just virsh edit your guest to use >1TB, e.g.:
<memory unit='GiB'>1500</memory>
And of course, stop and restart the guest to pick up the xml change.
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Title:
Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM
Status in QEMU:
Incomplete
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Attempting to start a KVM guest with more than 1TB of RAM fails.
It looks like we might need some extra patches:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-discuss/2017-12/msg00005.html
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: qemu-system-x86 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Fri May 4 16:21:14 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-05 (393 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9360
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.0-20-generic
root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash transparent_hugepage=madvise
vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: qemu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-30 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/26/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.6.2
dmi.board.name: 0PF86Y
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.6.2:bd02/26/2018:svnDellInc.:pnXPS139360:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PF86Y:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 13 9360
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
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- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, ChristianEhrhardt, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, ChristianEhrhardt, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, Daniel Axtens, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, Dan Streetman, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, Dan Streetman, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM,
Dan Streetman <=
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, ChristianEhrhardt, 2018/05/07
- [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, Daniel Berrange, 2018/05/08
[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, David Coronel, 2018/05/14
[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1769053] Re: Cannot start a guest with more than 1TB of RAM, Christian Ehrhardt , 2018/05/15