On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 04:08:47AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:19:28AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > And then I built a few more things on the host, ran a backup and > > updatedb, then tried to run qemu to create a new 64-bit guest. I'm > > getting > > > > ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) failed: 12 Cannot allocate memory > > failed to initialize KVM: Cannot allocate memory > > > > even if I only specify the 32-bit image I had been using for > > testing. Google was not helpful for this, so I've asked on the qemu > > list - but somehow, this cycle of testing is getting to be a pain. > > > > Finished some other testing, decided to reboot. But first I left > Xorg (ctrl-alt-backspace) and reran startx. It seems to be working > again. Weird. > > ĸen
Apparently, the box was out of memory - or out of sufficient memory to allocate whatever qemu was requesting. Of course, I did not use top or free. Sounds like something in xorg was not freeing memory. I'll need to keep an eye on this. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
