Comment 7 for bug 1705132

Christian,

The error isn't reproducible after installing the libvirt packages
from the PPA you provided. It took around ~42 seconds for the start to succeed.

root@buneary:/home/ubuntu# dpkg -l|grep libvirt
ii libvirt-bin 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.12~ppa1 amd64 programs for the libvirt library
ii libvirt0:amd64 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.12~ppa1 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
ii libvirt0-dbg 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.12~ppa1 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems - debugging symbols

root@buneary:/home/ubuntu# time virsh start reproducer2
Domain reproducer2 started

real 0m42.134s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.008s

It really allocated all the available huge pages on both nodes (0, 1).

root@buneary:/home/ubuntu# sudo cat /proc/$(pidof qemu-system-x86_64)/numa_maps | grep huge
7f5500000000 bind:1 file=/dev/hugepages/libvirt/qemu/qemu_back_mem._objects_ram-node1.DBggwd\040(deleted) huge dirty=62 N1=62 kernelpagesize_kB=1048576

7f64c0000000 bind:0 file=/dev/hugepages/libvirt/qemu/qemu_back_mem._objects_ram-node0.AmusgD\040(deleted) huge dirty=60 N0=60 kernelpagesize_kB=1048576

root@buneary:/home/ubuntu# cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages
0