From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 8 10:00:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69069D4; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:00:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from venture37@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x235.google.com (mail-ie0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BB593F; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id 17so4768373iea.26 for ; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:00:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TyvdkMBBj2XceeAwOm8oj9be/cJO21aEvYT2vbWQ4sU=; b=LrRNpSBgy9MmOIEkBjZldNaX3b7+2dIcOt99qNu/zWe0i600zS47Sq54SlHgvhZq03 Eq658eoFwQcOC4GZ1bY2VohiEdT/BSF8Qo+oU8eIgsY1bwxYC5onVVTunFQHQIiwiaYt aBhAKoRy0g9r9A90ler4tENs9fDiWuc3E+CZFtvDk0DZFcONALtWZPNZbYujT4HHZqCX 9Sju17vi6aWB6D7/llvAJqYr/Xz//bCxW5O/dFi/6toXLnvqAnUakMlRtVxcT81XpzeL ALHJVAg3nDnGkBBaOhx5an6rMbQqeIznUvsLvjrL5Oq5o1gYKU4Dy51NS/zHFruj9Qhc YTRA== X-Received: by 10.50.95.227 with SMTP id dn3mr1063095igb.99.1360317642357; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sevans-MacBook-Pro.local ([83.167.125.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id uj6sm14575224igb.4.2013.02.08.02.00.40 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:00:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5114CC79.40605@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:59:21 +0400 From: Sevan / Venture37 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Grehan Subject: Re: bhyve hangs on going multi user References: <51132599.60506@gmail.com> <51136892.1020505@gmail.com> <5114361F.8060303@gmail.com> <51146575.2080602@freebsd.org> <5114C5B5.8030209@gmail.com> <5114C7DC.6070106@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5114C7DC.6070106@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:00:43 -0000 On 08/02/2013 13:39, Peter Grehan wrote: > Ah - that actually won't work. There has to be space for PCI MMIO > decode below 4GB, so it's usually best to use up to say 2 or 3GB of RAM > below the 4GB mark, leaving 1GB for PCI decode, and then put the > remainder of your memory above 4G e.g. for 4GB total RAM, and using 2GB > below 4G > > -m 2048 -M 2048 > > and an example 8G system: > > -m 2048 -M 6144 > > We should really error out on values too large for the '-m' parameter. Thanks for that Peter :) Starting the VM with -m 2048 -M 14336 worked fine. FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r246446: Thu Feb 7 12:21:37 UTC 2013 :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FreeBSD clang version 3.2 (tags/RELEASE_32/final 170710) 20121221 WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (3399.75-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x306a9 Family = 0x6 Model = 0x3a Stepping = 9 Features=0x8fa3ab7f Features2=0xe3bae257 AMD Features=0x28100800 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 19327352832 (18432 MB) avail memory = 16482443264 (15718 MB)