> On Feb 26, 2015, at 9:12 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > I had kvm working fine (i686 guest) from a new x86_64 host system - > after fixing up some Xorg server issues - and then I decided to > create a new x86_64 guest (this is linuxfromscratch, so using an old > guest to build a new one). But now when I try to start qemu with > any of my images, even one which worked a couple of hours ago after > I last reran 'startx', I get: > > ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) failed: 12 Cannot allocate memory > failed to initialize KVM: Cannot allocate memory That means the ioctl failed, which means most probably a call to allocate memory in the kernel failed.
Do you have enough free memory on the system ? It may be helpful if you post your Qemu cmd line and the output from free/top.. > > and google produced nothing useful about where I need to look. This > is linux-3.19.0 and qemu-2.2.0 (and linuxfromscratch-7.7-rc / > current BLFS). Any pointers, pretty please with sugar ? > > ĸen > -- > Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. > Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. >
