After memory hot unplug via REST API the Defined Memory field in RHV-M displays different values from the free command in the RHEL guest
Issue
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After repeated hot plug and hot unplug attempts via the REST API, the total memory value displayed by the
free
command on the guest goes out of sync with theDefined Memory
value displayed in the RHV-M UI.In the RHV-M UI,
Compute -> Virtual Machines -> select VM > General tab
displays:Defined Memory: 4096 MB
RHEL guest displays:
# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 28309 886 26929 10 492 26399
Both memory values should be the same.
Environment
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 virtual machines
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