Re: Unable to use all physical memory

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

What's your xen command line?

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:37:57PM +0100, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:
> I've used NetBSD/Xen for perhaps 5 years, at least 3 different major
> versions of xenkernel/xentools combined with NetBSD 6.x and 7.0.
> 
> Recently, when using Xen 4.5 and xl, I no longer can make use of all
> physical RAM.  This is a show-stopper problem for my usage.
> 
> Example:
> 
> $ xl cr foo.cfg
> Parsing config from foo.cfg
> libxl: error: libxl.c:4832:libxl_set_memory_target: new target 0 for dom0 is below the minimum threshold
> 
> According to xentop, there is plenty of memory left:
> 
> Mem: 8355064k total, 6706832k used, 1648232k free    CPUs: 4 @ 2401MHz
> 
> 
> But foo.cfg only asks for 1 GiB.:
> 
> kernel = "/u/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1.5/amd64/netbsd-XEN3_DOMU"
> memory = 1024
> vcpus = 1
> name = "nbsd64v61"
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:64:61:68, bridge=bridge0' ]
> disk = ['file:/xen/netbsd/netbsd-64-6.1.img,xvda,w']
> on_shutdown = "destroy"
> on_reboot = "restart"
> on_crash = "destroy"
> 
> -- 
> Torbjörn
> Please encrypt, key id 0xC8601622