On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:26:41AM -0400, Dave Voutila wrote:
>
> Mike Larkin writes:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 12:22:23AM +0200, Thomas L. wrote:
> >> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 14:28:09 -0700
> >> Mike Larkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 09:15:10PM +0200, Thomas L. wrote:
> >> > > On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 11:11:01 -0700
> >> > > Mike Larkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > > > Anything in the host's dmesg?
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > *host* dmesg. I think you misread what I was after...
> >>
> >> The dmesg of the host was already attached to the first mail below the
> >> vm.conf (I mistakenly called the host hypervisor, which I realize now is
> >> not accurate). I figured since it was already attached, that
> >> you must mean the VM, compounding the confusion ...
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >
> > I see.
> >
> > You'll probably need to build a kernel with VMM_DEBUG and save that output 
> > and
> > send it to me once a VM crashes. Note: it will generate a lot of output and
> > probably make things somewhat slower.
> >
> > -ml
>
> Thomas: I looked at your host dmesg and your provided vm.conf. It looks
> like 11 vm's with the default 512M memory and one (minecraft) with
> 8G. Your host seems to have only 16GB of memory, some of which is
> probably unavailable as it's used by the integrated gpu. I'm wondering
> if you are effectively oversusbcribing your memory here.
>
> I know we currently don't support swapping guest memory out, but not
> sure what happens if we don't have the physical memory to fault a page
> in and wire it.
>

Something else gets swapped out.

> Even without a custom kernel with VMM_DEBUG, if it's a uvm_fault issue
> you should see a message in the kernel buffer. Something like:
>
>   vmx_fault_page: uvm_fault returns N, GPA=0x...., rip=0x....
>
> mlarkin: thoughts on my hypothesis? Am I wildly off course?
>
> -dv
>

Yeah I was trying to catch the big dump when a VM resets. That would tell
us if the vm caused the reset or if vmd(8) crashed for some reason.

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