Hello all,
      My machine has 512 MB of
memory of which 32 MB is used for video and 64 by XEN. Therefore, I have
domain0 booting off approx. 415 MB (mentioned in /boot/menu/menu.lst)
 
free reports 415 MB total memory.
#xm balloon 0 128
#/etc/init.d/xendomains start
#xm list
Domain-0 -> 128 MB
Domain-1 -> 128 MB
Domain-2 -> 128MB
free still reports 415 MB total memory.
 
Which is all good.
 
Now, when I did a xm balloon 0 256 (out of bound:  415 minus
mem for domain1 minus mem for domain 2 is ~140) the machine locked.. Without
giving any error message. I would have expected an out of range error.
 
I am running 2.6.8-14.24-xen kernel.
 
Thanks for any explanations in advance.
 
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Utsav Agarwal
Systems Analyst
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