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When we build a Centos 7 VM with 1.4T RAM it fails with "[   17.797177] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff988b19478000"

I asked in #centos and they asked me to show a list of devices from a working VM (if I use 720G RAM it works). This is the list:

[root at alberttest1 ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio network device
00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio block device
00:05.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio block device
00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio block device
00:07.0 Unclassified device [00ff]: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio memory balloon
[root at alberttest1 ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

They suspect that the "Virtio memory balloon" driver is causing the problem, and that we should disable it. I googled around and found this:

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Projects/auto-ballooning

It looks like memory ballooning is deprecated. How can I get rid of the driver?

Also they complained about my host bridge device; they say that we should have a newer one:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)

Where can I specify the host bridge?

<bugs_> ok ozzzo one of the devices is called "virtio memory balloon"
[13:18:12] <bugs_> do you see that?
[13:18:21] <ozzzo> yes
[13:18:47] <bugs_> i suggest you google that and read about what it does - i think it would
[13:19:02] <bugs_> be worth trying to disable that device on your larger vm to see what happens
[13:19:18] <ozzzo> ok I will try that, thank you
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[13:22:06] <@TrevorH> I also notice that the VM seems to be using the very old 440FX and there's a newer model of hardware available that might be worth checking
[13:22:21] <@TrevorH> 440FX chipset is the old old pentium Pro chipset!
[13:22:32] <@TrevorH> I had one of those in about 1996
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