On 2/20/22 04:07, Charles Polisher wrote: > Hello, > > After defining hugepages, as documented at > https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#memory-backing , > when I start the guest, I get a dialogue > box that says: > > Error starting domain: internal error: qemu unexpectedly > closed the monitor: 2022-02-20T01:10:36.520955Z > qemu-system-x86_64: Memory backend 'pc.ram' not found > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, > in cb_wrapper > callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 101, > in tmpcb > callback(*args, **kwargs) > File > "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57, > in newfn > ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs) > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line > 1329, in startup > self._backend.create() > File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1353, > in create > raise libvirtError('virDomainCreate() failed' > > After backing out changes, guest starts normally. > I searched online for the error message, but found nothing useful. > The hypervisor is running libvirtd (libvirt) 7.8.0 and QEMU emulator > version 6.1.0, > both build from source. I've got plenty of hugepages available. > The domain's XML definition is attached. Hey, can you share your domain XML and the generated cmd line? The latter should be found in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$domain.log Thanks, Michal