The virsh-command freecell hands out bytes but affixes those with kB. The error ist found in virsh.c on line 1663 and following. I have corrected this and altered the output to the method i chose for virt-manager - in the days of 96 GB per socket (Nehalem-EP) no one cares even about a fraction of a Megabyte. --- a/src/virsh.c 2009-04-02 17:45:50.000000000 +0200 +++ b/src/virsh.c 2009-04-02 23:35:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -1661,10 +1661,23 @@ } if (cell == -1) - vshPrint(ctl, "%s: %llu kB\n", _("Total"), memory); + if (memory < 10*1024*1204*1024) + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%s: %.0f MB\n", _("Total"), (float)memory/1024/1024); + } + else + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%s: %.2f GB\n", _("Total"), (float)memory/1024/1024/1024); + } else - vshPrint(ctl, "%d: %llu kB\n", cell, memory); - + if (memory < 10*1024*1204*1024) + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%d: %.0f MB\n", cell, (float)memory/1024/1024); + } + else + { + vshPrint(ctl, "%d: %.2f GB\n", cell, (float)memory/1024/1024/1024); + } return TRUE; } eg: rr016# virsh freecell; free -m 0: 24 MB total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3884 3859 24 0 60 1306 -/+ buffers/cache: 2492 1392 Swap: 2047 248 1798 rr017# virsh freecell; free -m 0: 1490 MB total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2991 1501 1489 0 100 1283 -/+ buffers/cache: 117 2873 Swap: 2047 0 2047 rr019# virsh freecell; free -m 0: 1616 MB total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3952 2337 1615 0 5 1209 -/+ buffers/cache: 1121 2831 Swap: 2047 0 2047 Is this okay with you? Or just the fix for the output removing the kB-suffix.