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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:58:08 -0600
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BHyVe: vm_setup_memory(highmem): Cannot allocate memory
Message-ID:  <50324270.9040504@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120820133613.GA1701@kloomba>
References:  <20120815155222.GA46502@kloomba> <20120819191127.GA1733@kloomba> <5031C58C.40108@freebsd.org> <20120820133613.GA1701@kloomba>

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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.



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