Re: error: exceptions.OSError ... VM test restarting too fast

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:39:21PM +0300, Michael Dexter wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I set up a Xen 3.0/NetBSD 4.0 system with a NetBSD 4.0 release and 
> automatically-retrieved packages and received the errors below.
> 
> As the system has 4GB of RAM, 3320M in reality, This post may shed some 
> light on the situation:
> 
> > > I've had issues on the 2950 with 4G RAM. I had to restrict the memory
> > > to about 3GB via xen boot line (I think it's mem=3092M, or something
> > > like that) to have domUs working. I assumed it was an issue with the
> > > 2950's bios, because I didn't have this problem with a supermicro
> > > server with also 4GB RAM, and the same CPUs.
> >
> > Yay, thanks ! mem=3092M solved it, indeed. But the question is: why
> > is -current DOMU kernel working ?
> 
> Can mem=3092M be added to menu.lst? If so where? (xen line or netbsd line?)

On the xen line

> 
> Else, does this appear to be a different issue entirely?

Is it Xen 3.0 or 3.1 ? pkgsrc has Xen 3.1.4 these days.
But it could also be the same issue I had with the 2950 ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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