Re: [Xen-devel] Where can I get a balloon driver to test PoD

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yunhong:

When I originally developed the balloon drivers about a year ago, it
was possible to compile PV drivers externally, from
xen.hg/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6 using Debian's stock kernel.
However, since that time, things have changed and I haven't been able
to.

The system I'm using now actually uses one of Stefano Stabellini's
"pv-on-hvm" trees.  It's a bit experimental, but stable enough, and
the balloon driver seems to be working.  He's on holiday now, but you
can cc him and ask.

Another option would be to use a Windows guest, with either the XCP or
the OSS Windows drivers.  (Not sure of the OSS Windows drivers have
ballooning, but the XCP ones do.)

I have a stack of patches from XenServer to push upstream to
-unstable, but I haven't had time to test them yet, due to
higher-priority things coming in.  Let me know how it goes.

 -George

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:55:46PM +0800, Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
>> Jan, thanks for your information. I will try to get a SLE11 SP1 kernel or 
>> XCP kernel.
>>
>
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
>
> Links there.
>
> -- Pasi
>
>> Also not sure if Stefano has interests to fix this, since he added the 
>> platform-pci driver, which makes pv-on-hvm possible. CC him.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --jyh
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> >Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:43 PM
>> >To: Jiang, Yunhong
>> >Cc: George Dunlap; xen-devel
>> >Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Where can I get a balloon driver to test PoD
>> >
>> >>>> On 13.09.10 at 15:29, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Does anyone know where I can get a working balloon driver for PV-on-HVM 
>> >> guest?
>> >
>> >You could build unmodified_drivers/ against our SLE11 SP1 kernel (or
>> >XCP's, which is based on this) or against OpenSuSE 11.3's.
>> >
>> >Jan
>>
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