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Subject: Re: BHyVe: vm_setup_memory(highmem): Cannot allocate memory
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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 :(

later,

Peter.