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Re: [Xen-devel] uclibc-dom0/xen 2.0.5 trivia



Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:

Anthony Liguori wrote:

> libxc builds quite fine against uClibc as does vm-tools.  I use it
> busybox imagine (with uClibc) quite frequently for testing and development.

Did you try how small you could make dom0 by any chance?

root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx rh# df
/xen/rockhopper.img       3963      1666      2093  45% /xen/rh

So a bit over 1.5MB. I must admit, while the prospect of a super-small dom0 is quite appealing, using a ramdisk just hasn't proved to be all that useful.

The thing that always comes back to bite me too is that I cannot get X to start in a domU. If I could get that to work it might be practical.

Obviously, the key to getting things to build so small is to use busybox and uClibc but another important tip is to be very careful about what goes in /dev. /dev can eat a ton of space in certain file systems.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori

Jacob


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