UTM Home RAM Limitation with 9.712-13 ?

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Hi there! 
 
 Yesterday I installed a virtual UTM on VMWare (4vCPU, 4 GB RAM). After Login to the webinterface, only 3 GB of RAM was shown. 
 It&acute;s ok, it only used 30 %. After activation virus scan and Webserverprotection it went up to 69%. So I wanted to increase the memory. I set it to 6GB but the UTM keeps showing 3 GB, also on the console: 
 gate:/root # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 3114444 kB
MemFree: 230372 kB

Is it possible to increase the memory, or is there a limitation? 
 
 Thanks!

Amodin · Accepted Answer

Well normally in the past, when you change hardware in a Linux environment, especially related to NICs, you would have to reinstall the system. It's gotten a lot better with handling that aspect of hardware with the exception of the NIC. Any time you change a NIC in that environment, there's no other clean solution than to reinstall. 
 I don't run my UTM in a VM environment and keep it as its own device, using VM for my backend servers. Normally, you would see that as an issue with Windows and a 32-bit system. The only thing that comes to mind is your install isn't utilizing a 64-bit installation, but that would normally relate to a Windows 32-bit install. I don't recall Linux being affected by that. You may have to enable DEP on your VM. If your hardware doesn't support that, you would have to have something like a /PAE switch command for the boot to see the memory. I don't know what the switch command would be for Linux, but for Windows 32-bit systems, it was /PAE after the /fastboot switch in the boot.ini. 
 If you are 'hot adding' memory into a Linux 64-bit VM, or any Windows 32-bit VM, you can't do that.

Vivek Jagad · Answer

Hey Guinness , ensure you are running 64bit UTM !!

Amodin · Answer

Yeah just like I said in my original reply, the 64-bit version selection. You should install that when prompted.

UTM Home RAM Limitation with 9.712-13 ?

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