Re: [edk2] A problem about the memory size of virtual machine(VM) when using OVMF

Re: [edk2] A problem about the memory size of virtual machine(VM) when using OVMF

[Laszlo Ersek]

I have the impression that this is HTML mail. Please don't post HTML
mail; it falls apart when it is quoted.

That said,

On 06/04/15 16:07, Maoming wrote:
> Hi all：
> 
>    I started a virtual machine(VM) (redhat6.3_64bit) using OVMF in XEN4.6.
> 
> And the memory of the VM is 64G.
> 
>    But I only got 3.5G inside the VM using "free".
> 
>    There is a same problem in KVM too.

I don't have a Xen environment to test this. CC'ing Xen devel.

I checked on KVM (upstream OVMF, RHEL-7.1.z host, RHEL-6.5 guest with
5GB RAM). I cannot reproduce the issue; "free" in the guest reports the
RAM correctly.

Laszlo

> 
>   
> 
>                                total       used       free     shared   
> buffers     cached
> 
>          Mem:       3715640     495916    3219724          0     
> 22060     175136
> 
>          -/+ buffers/cache:     298720    3416920
> 
>          Swap:      4046840          0    4046840
> 
>         
> 
>    in the host using "xl list" to check:
> 
>          Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs     
> State   Time(s)
> 
>          Domain-0                                     0   3055    16    
> r-----     861.2
> 
>          redhat                                       4   65536    
> 2     r-----       5.9
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>    Any thought on this?
> 
>    Any help will be appreciated.
> 
>    If you need some other information, please let me know. :)
> 
>  
> 
>          Thanks!
> 
>          -mao
> 
> 
> 
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