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Subject: Re: error running grub-bhyve with -S
From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Oct 22, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> # bhyvectl =E2=80=94vm=3Dvm0 --destroy
>> # grub-bhyve -m /images/vm0-device.map -M 1024 -r hd1 -S vm0
>> Could not setup memory for VM
>> Error in initializing VM
>=20
> The -S option will force allocation of guest memory (required by =
passthru). Is there 1G of free mem available on the machine when =
grub-bhyve was run ?

Hi, thanks for the response. Yes, the machine had something like 6GB =
free (not including cache/buf). I also tried running grub-bhyve with =
smaller memory values down to and including 32MB (just to see if it =
would work, not because I expect my VM to run with that), and without a =
-M flag (which, IIRC, defaults to 256MB). I always got the same error.

JN