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Re: [Xen-API] Comments on Xen API document

To: John Levon <john.levon@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-API] Comments on Xen API document
From: Gareth S Bestor <bestorga@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:42:02 -0700
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>> > VCPUs/params needs a detailed description of what it can/does contain
>>
>> It's meant to be a free-form string, interpreted by whatever scheduler is
>> running.
>
>So it's explicit that an XML RPC client can't configure the scheduler
>parameters, right?


If the only real way to do any sort of priority based 'weighting' of CPU allocation to guest VMs under Xen is via adjusting scheduler params, then personally I would like to see XML RPC interfaces for that. Otherwise the only level of host CPU resource allocation adjustment available to an system admin via CIM is rather coarse pinning/unpinning specific physical CPUs to specific DomUs.

Or am I missing something here?

- Gareth

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