Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] kvm causing memory corruption?  ~2.6.25-rc6
From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:30:17 -0700
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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:59 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:10 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >> btw, is this with >= 4GB RAM on the host?
> >>     
> > Well, are you asking whether I have PAE on or not? :)
> 
> No, I'm asking whether there is a possibility of address truncation :)
> 
> PAE by itself doesn't affect kvm much, as it always runs the guest in 
> pae mode.
> 
> Can you try running with mem=2000M or something?

Oh, sure.  I'll give that a shot.

-- Dave

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