Re: [Xen-users] about xm vcpu-set

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:52 PM, yassine ayachi
<ayachi.yassine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [root@localhost ~]# xm list
> Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs   State
> Time(s)
> Domain-0                                 0     4035     4            r-----
>   29851.8
> domU                                       3     2047     1
> r-----   96114.6
>
> [root@localhost ~]# xm vcpu-set 3 2
>

That won't work. The maximum amount of CPU and memory for domU is
determined at domU creation. You can't simply add a CPU like that.

A workaround is to use something like this on domU config file
(old-style config):
#======================
memory = "500"
maxmem = "8000"

vcpus=8
vcpu_avail=1
#======================

that way domU will start with 500MB memory, but you'll be able to
expand it later up to 8000MB. As for CPU, it will actually start with
8 CPU but during kernel boot the other 7 will be hot-unplugged (you'll
see lots of "Breaking affinity for irq ..." message during domU boot.
It's normal). You can then hot-plug other CPUs as needed, up to a
maximum of 8.

Note that these work for xenified PV kernels only. It doesn't work
(yet) for pv_ops kernel or HVM guest.

-- 
Fajar

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