On Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:55:02 -0400, Jim Paris wrote: > > According to the tests that I was doing in guest with kernel with > > support for virtio, shrinking works, but when trying to return to > > the amount of initial memory, seems that it fails and I lose > > connectivity by serial console and ssh. > > > > In the guest: > > > > # uname -a > > Linux central 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 20:35:48 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > # cat config-2.6.26-2-amd64 | grep -i virtio > > CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=m > > CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m > > CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=m > > CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO=m > > CONFIG_VIRTIO=m > > CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING=m > > CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m > > CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m > > > > In the host: > > > > # telnet localhost 4045 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to localhost. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > QEMU 0.10.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information > > (qemu) > > (qemu) info balloon > > balloon: actual=512 > > (qemu) balloon 256 > > (qemu) info balloon > > balloon: actual=256 > > (qemu) > > (qemu) balloon 512 > > (qemu) info balloon > > balloon: actual=36 > > > > At this moment I'm unable to connect by serial console to the guest > > and the ssh sessions are freeze nevertheless kvm process of the > > guest is running. Using a VNC client I see several messages of this > > type in the guest: > > > > Out of memory: kill process xxxx (<name>) score xx or a child > > Killed process xxxx (<name>) > > > > Finally: > > > > Kernel panic - not syncing - Out of memory and no killable processes... > Hi Daniel, Hi, Jim. > I noticed no-one answered this, and I just ran into the same thing > myself. As Avi pointed out earlier, it is a guest bug, and upgrading > the guest to 2.6.27 should fix it: > http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg10849.html In this moment I doesn't have Internet connectivity in my house, but, as soon as it be possible, I shall download the necessary software to compile 2.6.27 or superior and then I tell you the result of the tests. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Daniel -- Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze - Linux user #188.598
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