id = 1046
title = "Using more than 2G of RAM on armv7l guest with RPI4"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2022-05-29T18:24:31.225Z"
closed_at = "2022-08-01T17:21:36.625Z"
labels = ["Closed::Invalid", "accel: KVM", "target: arm"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1046"
host-os = "NixOS unstable"
host-arch = "aarch64"
qemu-version = "7.0.0"
guest-os = "NixOS unstable"
guest-arch = "armv7l"
description = """I was able to run my armv7l guest on RPI4 8G using qemu 6.2, but on 7.0 it doesn't work:
`qemu-kvm: Addressing limited to 32 bits, but memory exceeds it by 3221225472 bytes`.

The only reference I found is this issue: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/903"""
reproduce = """1. `-M virt,highmem=off,gic-version=host,accel=kvm`
2. `-cpu host,aarch64=off`
3. `-m 6G`"""
additional = """"""