Re: [Qemu-discuss] linux: ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) failed: 12 Cannot allocate memory

[Jakob Bohm]

On 27/02/2015 05:22, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:12:28AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > I had kvm working fine (i686 guest) from a new x86_64 host system -
> > after fixing up some Xorg server issues - and then I decided to
> > create a new x86_64 guest (this is linuxfromscratch, so using an old
> > guest to build a new one).  But now when I try to start qemu with
> > any of my images, even one which worked a couple of hours ago after
> > I last reran 'startx', I get:
> >
> > ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) failed: 12 Cannot allocate memory
> > failed to initialize KVM: Cannot allocate memory
> >
> > and google produced nothing useful about where I need to look.  This
> > is linux-3.19.0 and qemu-2.2.0 (and linuxfromscratch-7.7-rc /
> > current BLFS).  Any pointers, pretty please with sugar ?
>   Eventually, I finished the application tests I had been doing, and
> decided to reboot to see if that would fix it.  But before rebooting,
> I killed Xorg with ctrl-alt-backspace (yes, I'm old school ;) and
> then ran 'startx' again : now qemu is working once more.
>
>   Very weird, I was starting to think it might be a kernel
> regression, but apparently not.  Any pointers for what the error
> message means would still be appreciated.
I think it is self-explanatory: Not enough free memory in
the system, mostprobably because your X server had
allocated too much.

The  command "free" of the top lines in "top" output should
tell you how much is left.

Enjoy

Jakob
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