Thank you Narcis for your attention. Pc.ram is in the error message. And the
difference between GB and GiB is not the issue.
I tried binging memory down from 12 GB, and only when it was 1 GB, it would
start the VM. Is there a restriction somewhere that I am not aware of?
Wilm
Error msg:
Fout bij starten van domein: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the
monitor: 2023-04-19T16:11:28.206086Z qemu-system-i386: -object
memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=12884901888: cannot set up guest memory
'pc.ram': Invalid argument
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 101, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57,
in newfn
ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1329, in
startup
self._backend.create()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1353, in create
raise libvirtError('virDomainCreate() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor:
2023-04-19T16:11:28.206086Z qemu-system-i386: -object
memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=12884901888: cannot set up guest memory
'pc.ram': Invalid argument
-Original Message-
From: qemu-discuss-bounces+wboerhout=gmail@nongnu.org
On Behalf Of Narcis Garcia
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 6:07 PM
To: Qemu-discuss
Subject: Re: Max memory on VM (debian bullseye)
I don't see "pc.ram" in your XML.
I see two tags: and to specify 12 GiB (not 12GB)
El 19/4/23 a les 16:18, Wilm Boerhout ha escrit:
> I installed and configured KVM on a HP Zbook 15 laptop with 2x4 CPUs
> and 24GB of memory
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> OS is Debian bullseye
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> No matter what I try, any VM with > 1GB virtual memory gives an error
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> Cannot set up guest memory,’pc.ram’: invalid argument.
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> In the target XML file, the amount of memory (I need 12GB for my VM)
> is expressed in KiB and appears correct.
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> Any suggestions?
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Narcis Garcia
