Re: linux dom0 versus NetBSD dom0

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:05:43AM +0530, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:
> On 12/01/2012, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:
> >     Hello Manuel et al.  Two features I think we're interested in, but
> > which I don't know much about, are the balloon driver
> 
> The balloon driver works for domU. You can use it to set memory
> reserved for the domU via "xm  mem-set", or via "sysctl -w
> machdep.xen.balloon.machdep=xxx"

This is for a NetBSD domU (and it works for a NetBSD dom0).
There shouldn't be issues with linux domUs.

> 
> What you can't do is to "hot-add" more RAM to the domU.

NetBSD domU. This works with a linux domU and NetBSD dom0.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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