libvirt realtime feature mlockall: Cannot allocate memory

[Wei Zhu]

Is low latency kernel a requirement?
Anyway, I'm using 4.4.0-78-lowlatency now, following failed

(It worked if I manually use virsh with addtion of <memtune>)

warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ds [bit 21]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.acpi [bit 22]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ht [bit 28]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.tm [bit 29]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.pbe [bit 31]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dtes64 [bit 2]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.monitor [bit 3]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.ds_cpl [bit 4]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.smx [bit 6]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.est [bit 7]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.tm2 [bit 8]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.xtpr [bit 14]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pdcm [bit 15]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dca [bit 18]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.osxsave [bit 27]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ds [bit 21]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.acpi [bit 22]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ht [bit 28]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.tm [bit 29]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.pbe [bit 31]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dtes64 [bit 2]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.monitor [bit 3]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.ds_cpl [bit 4]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.smx [bit 6]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.est [bit 7]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.tm2 [bit 8]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.xtpr [bit 14]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pdcm [bit 15]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dca [bit 18]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.osxsave [bit 27]
mlockall: Cannot allocate memory
2017-06-01T14:47:43.122805Z qemu-system-x86_64: locking memory failed

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