failed to start - ouy of memory

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Submitted by ronald on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 13:27 Pro Licensee

Hi Jamie
I have created the .iso and an empty system. All according to the instructions in the documentation.
When I want to boot the system form CD I get this:
failed : Using config file "/xen/intranet.cfg". Error: (12, 'Cannot allocate memory')

The system still has more than 4GB of RAM available and the user has "unlimited" resources.
The .iso is a windows server as a guest

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 15:41

How much RAM was assigned to the virtual system? You can see this at Resources -> Resource Limits, or from the memory line in /xen/intranet.cfg

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Submitted by ronald on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 15:48 Pro Licensee

1024 MB RAM. Should be enough. I will dedicate more to see if it helps....
... now has 2GB of RAM and ...
failed : Using config file "/xen/intranet.cfg". Error: (12, 'Cannot allocate memory')

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 15:53

Perhaps all the RAM available for use by Xen has been used up?

If you select the host system from the left menu, click Edit System and open the "Detailed system status" section, what do the "Real memory used" and "Real memory for hosting" graphs show?

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Submitted by ronald on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 16:07 Pro Licensee

it should be enough available:

Real memory used
549.14 MB out of 4.85 GB

Real memory for hosting
3.50 GB out of 8 GB

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 16:31

Yeah, that looks fine ... I wonder if you are running into some Xen bug.

Do you have a lot of other Xen VMs running already?

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Submitted by ronald on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 16:44 Pro Licensee

I only have 4 Xen instances running.
This would be number 5.
I have send you login details recently if you want to log in yourself ..

I can create a normal Xen with centos by the way with 1gb ram

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Submitted by ronald on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 18:13 Pro Licensee

good catch.
Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 0 3946 4 r----- 53293.9

I changed it and now the VM is booting. Unfortunately it doesnt want to log in to the graphic console.
I'll continue tomorrow as it is late here.

thanks so far