Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:13:20 -0700 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error running grub-bhyve with -S Message-ID: <562AF750.5030303@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <8B7A0F48-9307-405A-A7F3-5E1B579DAA34@jnielsen.net> References: <71AAD86C-6966-46AA-BD73-2D0CE1E2C213@jnielsen.net> <56291C6F.9070405@freebsd.org> <8B7A0F48-9307-405A-A7F3-5E1B579DAA34@jnielsen.net>
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>> 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. I can get that error if vmm.ko isn't loaded, but in that case the bhyvectl command would also error out and it doesn't appear to in your case. Some questions: Is this on FreeBSD CURRENT ? Does grub-bhyve work without the -S option ? Or, with -S but a different VM name ? Does the issue persist after a reboot ? later, Peter.
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