Re: [Xen-devel] lowest limit for balloon?

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's probably a job for higher-level management tools. Maybe a safety 
catch should be placed on 'xm balloon', but the intra-VM 
/proc/xen/balloon interface is definitely not intended for the casual 
user.
 -- Keir


On 18 Jul 2005, at 11:57, aq wrote:

> urrently there is one problem with balloon: if we specify too little
> memory for a domain, that domain might crash with OOM error. even in
> that case, balloon still happily do what we request. i just
> accidentally balloon dom0 to 0M, and must reboot the machine ;-)
>
> so i guess it is better to enforce a certain limit, so balloon will
> not bring the amount of memory for a domain to be lower than that
> level.
>
> there are few choices to do this:
> - each domain has a configurable option for this (for example:
> balloon-level in domain config file)

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