[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] How to determine memory size in HVM
On 10/06/2009 16:28, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We might have to provide more info to you via xenstore to do the 100% > right >> thing here. > > Well I think the main problem is that if you shrink the DomU and then > reboot, you can't ever grow it again as Windows thinks it booted with > less memory. While there is the ability to add memory to a running > Windows machine, it is the 'hot add memory' (eg plugging in a memory > stick) and involves ACPI and only works under the Windows Server > Enterprise editions (which might still be useful, but probably not worth > the headaches involved in the ACPI work). I think the other issues are > minor in comparison to this problem. Populate-on-demand just needs integrating properly into xend. Then we would reboot with maxmem, and then the guest properly balloons down as soon as your GPLPV drivers are loaded. Populate-on-demand means the guest thinks it has maxmem allocated to it, but really memory pages are only being allocated to it on first use. This is all implemented in Xen and at least the lowest levels of the toolstack (libxc). -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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