[Wylug-discuss] Memory limit on Xen domain U

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007, John Leach wrote:
> Hi Owen,
>
> thanks for confirming this.  I've just read that the 4gig limit was in
> Xen 2.0 and was fixed in Xen 3.0.
>
> Thanks for the talk.  It was great to hear about Xen from someone who
> has deployed so much of it.  Big turn out too, so it seems a hot topic
> at the moment.
>
> John.

Agreed, thanks Owen.

 Dave.


>
> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 07:44 +0100, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> > Thanks to everyone who came last night.  Just a note: I have this
> > morning created a Xen domain U on a 32-bit host and given it
> > 5gb of memory.  The machine came up without a problem and has 5gb
> > of memory.  For
> >
> > collins 07:38:57> free
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:       5243028      89980    5153048          0       3244      15304
> > -/+ buffers/cache:      71432    5171596
> > Swap:      1048568          0    1048568
> > collins 07:38:59> uname -a
> > Linux collins 2.6.18-5-xen-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 06:00:04 UTC 2007 i686
> > GNU/Linux collins 07:39:06> logout
> >
> > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 collins tty1
> >
> > collins login: dart 07:42:30 > cat collins.conf
> > name="collins"
> > memory=5120
> > kernel="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-xen-686"
> > ramdisk="/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-xen-686"
> > root="root=/dev/hda2 ro ignorebiostables"
> > vif=[ 'mac=0E:00:00:00:00:41' ]
> > disk=[ 'phy:all/collinsroot,hda2,w', 'phy:all/collinsswap,hda5,w' ]
> > dart 07:42:37 >
> >
> > I should say that the dom0 kernel, the domU kernel, and the hypervisor
> > were all compiled with PAE.
> >
> >      -- Owen



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