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Re: [Xen-devel] 3.0.5-rc3: Creating HVM guest fails with: Cannot allocate memory


  • To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:27:14 +0100
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:25:59 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] 3.0.5-rc3: Creating HVM guest fails with: Cannot allocate memory

On 27/4/07 15:09, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> We do most testing with a sensible 'dom0_mem=' so we wouldn't see this.
> 
> Well 'sensible' depends on your target audience :-) In the desktop/laptop
> arena users like their Dom0 to have all the memory which isn't used by
> active guests - even to the extent we've had bugs reported asking us to
> make XenD automatically balloon dom0 back up after a guest shuts down !

Oh yes. If dom0 is your client OS and virtualisation is a secondary activity
on your box then this makes perfect sense!

 -- Keir


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