Re: Max memory on VM (debian bullseye)

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 17:14, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Narcis for your attention. Pc.ram is in the error message. And the 
> difference between GB and GiB is not the issue.
>
> I tried binging memory down from 12 GB, and only when it was 1 GB, it would 
> start the VM. Is there a restriction somewhere that I am not aware of?



> Fout bij starten van domein: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the 
> monitor: 2023-04-19T16:11:28.206086Z qemu-system-i386: -object 
> memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=12884901888: cannot set up guest memory 
> 'pc.ram': Invalid argument

qemu-system-i386 is the binary for 32-bit QEMU x86 targets. There is
always going to be a restriction on the amount of memory it can
use, because it's 32-bit. If you want as much as 12GB of RAM,
don't you want qemu-system-x86_64 (and probably also a 64-bit guest) ?

thanks
-- PMM