Steve Shockley wrote on 05.04.2026 03:49:
> Hi, I just moved an OpenBSD 7.8 VM from ESXi 6.5 to Proxmox 9.1. This
> was mostly uneventful.
>
> On Proxmox, the VM UI shows the guest as continuously using 107% of its
> allocated RAM. Is this expected, or do I need to configure something?
The Proxmox "Upgrade from 8 to 9" guide has an entry called "VM Memory
Consumption Shown is Higher" and states "... Therefore, the percentage
may spike to over 100% in some cases...". Although only FreeBSD is
mentioned by name.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9#VM_Memory_Consumption_Shown_is_Higher
> I installed qemu-ga, which appears to work but didn't fix the 107% RAM
> problem. However, it continuously created zombie sh processes until
> "cannot fork". I found https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/issues/692
> which mentions that the guest agent is trying to access /etc/os-release
> but creating an empty file there didn't make a difference. Is anyone
> successfully running qemu-ga?
What hardware are you simulating on Proxmox for this VM?
I do have an OpenBSD 7.8 running (but not running for long) with qemu-ga
installed and running. Although memory is not reported correctly since
'Host memory usage' is the same value as 'Memory Usage'.
Machine type is set to 'q35', 1 socket, 4 cores, cpu type
'x86-64-v2-AES', 8 GB ram. 'KVM hardware virtualization' is 'Yes', 'QEMU
Guest Agent' set to 'Enabled, type: ISA'.
>
> Thanks.
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