[CentOS] Windows 2008 R2 on KVM

[linuxsupport]

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:58 PM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:00 AM, linuxsupport <lin.support at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a KVM machine with CentOS 6.4 (64bit), I have a Linux guest
> running
> > well on this, I created a Windows 2008 R2 guest and once I start it,
> after
> > sometime all the host memory get exhausted and both the guests
> (linux+win)
> > killed.
> >
>
> > While I'm not running a W2k8 R2 VM, I do have a CentOS 6.4 host node that
> > has three Windows VMs for testing (WinXP-32bit, Win7-64bit, and
> Win8-64bit)
> > that has been running well.  I also have a handful of other Linux VMs on
> > that host with those Windows ones.
>
>
> >
> > Host has 32 GB RAM, 8 GB is allocated to Linux guest and 8 GB to Windows.
> >
> > Any idea? anyone experienced similar issue?
> >
>
> > How long is "some time"?
>
It takes around 1-2 hours

looking at free -m output, cached memory starts increasing and free
reducing

> Sure sounds like a memory leak since the Windows VM will run for a little
> > while.
>
> > What version of KVM are you running?
>
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.0.1.el6.centos.2.x86_64

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