VM won't boot (SOLVED)

KVM
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I have kvm with virt-manager installed on Linux Mint 17. I followed the instructions but get an error when I start the VM. See below. Anybody know how it can be fixed? If not then I’m going back to Virtualbox. Thanks.

Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: file_ram_alloc: can’t mmap RAM pages: Cannot allocate memory

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py”, line 96, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py”, line 117, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py”, line 1162, in startup
self._backend.create()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py”, line 866, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError (‘virDomainCreate() failed’, dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: file_ram_alloc: can’t mmap RAM pages: Cannot allocate memory

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Please remove both whonix vm first. Then edit the xml configuration files for the gateway and workstation you got from the tar.gz folder following the instructions here Whonix ™ for KVM
I need you to edit out the tags and the hugepagetables setting in between.
Then re-import them.

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It worked. VM boots up normally now. Thanks a bunch!

Was it the host OS that caused the error? The edit you said isn’t listed anywhere.

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Was it the host OS that caused the error? The edit you said isn't listed anywhere.

Did it work without edits to the config? The snippets I saw on the web suggest the problem is related to KVM’s use of libhugetlbfs.

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Did it work without edits to the config? The snippets I saw on the web suggest the problem is related to KVM's use of libhugetlbfs.

No, it didn’t work without the edits to the config. Everything went smooth until I tried to boot the VM from virt-manager. I followed the instructions to a “T”. Here are the apps that were install for KVM: libvirt-bin, qemu-kvm, qemu-system, virt-manager, spice-client, and python-spice-client-gtk. There were a bunch of dependencies that were also installed with those.

Thanks again.