DU VM is not Starting up due to Memory Exhaustion Over DU Host

Problem

• The DU VM is in shutoff state in the virsh list output.
• Libvirtd is complaining
• The workload cluster is running as expected.

Environment

• Platform9 Edge Cloud

Cause

Due to not having enough free memory over the DU Host; the DU VM does not get provisioned. Libvirtd throws the below error in relevance to the memory scarcity.

Jul  12 08:58:12 example.com libvirtd: 2024-07-08 04:03:24.312+0000: 1895: error : qemuMonitorOpenUnix:379 : failed to connect to monitor socket: No such process

Jul 12 08:59:22 example.com libvirtd: 2024-07-12 15:59:22.303+0000: 2206: error : virFork:332 : cannot fork child process: Cannot allocate memory

Resolution

• As per the default value for vmMemoryMb, DU VM requires minimum 8192Mi of memory (~8 GB) to be provisioned and run over DU Host. The value vmMemoryMb can be fetched from airctl-config.yaml file in DU Host