BHyVe: vm_setup_memory(highmem): Cannot allocate memory

Roman Bogorodskiy novel at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 2 16:57:09 UTC 2012


  Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:

>   Peter Grehan wrote:
> 
> > Hi Roman,
> > 
> > > Yeah, but I'd like to leave more memory for the host system, so I
> > > specified 6GB. I have 8GB at all, so 2GB left for VMs.
> > > Should it cause any problems?
> > 
> >   No, that should be fine.
> > 
> > > BTW, I encountered a problem with the tap0 device. I create a tap device
> > > and assign an address to it, using 'ifconfig tap0 192.168.1.1 up'.
> > >
> > > I boot a VM and everything goes fine. When I do 'reboot' in the guest,
> > > it reboots, but tap0 on the host goes down and its address is dropped.
> > > Is that an expected behaviour?
> > 
> >   Yes - we probably need to fix the tap device to not do that :(
> 
> Yeah, it would be great to get this fixed.
> 
> And one question: is there a way to get a list of all running VMs on the
> host? Doesn't seem like vmmctl being able to do that.

Oh, I've started reading the code and figured out that I can just do
`ls /dev/vmm`!

Roman Bogorodskiy
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