On boot, the 1.7.x virtual appliance reports insufficient memory and wants to shutdown

This is not a troubleshooting request, but to help people who may encounter this error in the future. I did not find anything when I experienced it.

OS version: appliance firmware 1.7.8

Error message: “Your device has not enough memory (916224 kB). You need to have at least 2 GB installed.”

Host: Proxmox 8
NUMA is enabled on the CPU to allow for memory and CPU hotplug

It turns out that NUMA was the issue. Once I disabled memory and CPU hotplug and unchecked NUMA, the appliance booted again without issue.

I hope this helps someone else in the future.

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