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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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[SOLVED] QEMU Issues - 2GB memory cap, Booting error

I have always run QEMU in a script. The line which executes it has typically looked like,

qemu-kvm -boot c -m $ram -hda $hdd_location -net nic,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=1 -localtime -k $keymap

But with the recent update (I'm on 0.10.2-3 now), I noticed that I need to use --enable-kvm instead. So since I need to be able to support a 64-bit guest OS, I tried...

qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -boot c -m $ram -hda $hdd_location -net nic,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=1 -localtime -k $keymap

This does not seem to be able to boot my old Windows XP64 image. Instead I get a stop error whenever I try. Furthermore, I had previously been able to boot with 2GB RAM. Now when I try to boot with 2GB RAM, I get this error:

qemu: at most 2047 MB RAM can be simulated

Does anyone have any ideas?

Last edited by tony5429 (2009-04-15 06:32:21)

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,017

Re: [SOLVED] QEMU Issues - 2GB memory cap, Booting error

If anyone else is having these troubles, check out http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4978 - looks like the solution is switching from the qemu package to the kvm package.