[SeaBIOS] KVM cpu limitations

John Paul Walters jwalters at isi.edu
Wed Aug 10 22:43:16 CEST 2011


On Aug 9, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:32:02PM -0400, John Paul Walters wrote:
> 
> You're hitting a weird interaction with the mptable - its allocation
> just barely fits, and since it takes up all the ram in the f-segment
> it causes other allocations to fail (which are needed to hold info on
> the boot drive).
> 
> This should no longer be an issue in the latest SeaBIOS from git.
> Alternatively, if you increase the number of CPUs, you should see the
> machine boot becuase only the mptable allocation will fail.
> 

Thanks Kevin.  I updated SeaBIOS and I'm able to boot the VM now.

JP



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