Re: [Xen-devel] Size limit on extra argument to xm create

[Mick Jordan <Mick.Jordan@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/ 9/09 11:30 PM, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Since it's baked into the guest ABI, it's not expandable. It's rather likely
> you'll have to live with only 1024 characters of boot parameters: the
> horror!
>   
I realize that 1024 seems large enough for a traditional OS. In my Java 
Virtual Machine guest, I am faced with some applications that issue very 
large command lines, certainly in excess of 1024. There are workarounds, 
but it means I can't run certain apps out of the box.
> The initial ram disk is just an 'module' you can load into guest memory for
> interpretation by the guest kernel as it loads. Convention is to load it
> into RAM immediately after the guest kernel, and place its address and size
> into the mod_start/mod_len fields of start_info.
>   
I assume this is specified via the "ramdisk" configuration file option?

Mick


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