Why does my Xen dom0 detect only 32GB of RAM?
Issue
- While installing xen on hardware with more than 32GB memory the OS detects only 32GB memory.
dmesgoutput shows all memory present, butfreeoutput does not.- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) does not show total available memory when booting into a xen kernel.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3+
- Xen kernel
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