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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Max. PV and HVM Guests

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Max. PV and HVM Guests
From: "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +0800
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No, I didn't limit dom0 memory in grub.conf.

Here's my xm info output after I have shutdown all the virtual machines.

[root@fedora11-x86-64-host ~]# xm list
Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                     0  2812     2     r-----   3242.5
[root@fedora11-x86-64-host ~]# xm info
host                   : fedora11-x86-64-host
release                : 2.6.30-rc3-enming.teo-tip
version                : #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 23:14:15 SGT 2009
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 2
nr_nodes               : 1
cores_per_socket       : 2
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2800
hw_caps                : bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000140:0400e3bd:00000000:00000001:00000000
virt_caps              : hvm hvm_directio
total_memory           : 6039
free_memory            : 3124
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-1
node_to_memory         : node0:3124
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 5
xen_extra              : -unstable
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : Tue Sep 01 11:34:31 2009 +0100 20143:a7de5bd776ca
xen_commandline        : iommu=1
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.4.1 20090725 (Red Hat 4.4.1-2) (GCC)
cc_compile_by          : root
cc_compile_domain      : (none)
cc_compile_date        : Thu Sep 10 07:01:13 SGT 2009
xend_config_format     : 4

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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:52:37PM +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>    Please watch this 4-minute video at
>    [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbLaPpwNAx4
>
>    I have only started 3 HVM Linux guests with 1 GB ram each. I can't start
>    the 4th HVM guest. If I attempt to start the 4th instance, it will crash
>    dom0.
>
>    Are there anything in the xm dmesg output that could explain the low limit
>    to the number of VMs that I could start before dom0 becomes unresponsive?
>

Have you limited dom0 memory (by specifying dom0_mem=XMB option in
grub.conf for xen.gz) ?

What does "xm info" say about free memory before starting any guests?

-- Pasi






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