WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: how to balloon memory with a Windows guest domainun

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: how to balloon memory with a Windows guest domainunder Xen
From: Niu Yan <vivian.niu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:29:32 +0800
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:35:57 -0800
Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=F5I+vumpjbI/EHFjoHMiO4RIYpXBMI5GvKFxvjN7YnU=; b=WHIQ9kaGf/kPZPSzkdpeXXsrWpYPPVX2KkZzytk6dy8Fj3a+G3SsyI9i2hm1ifBH6k 1vgQIQaFiBNKTKLSqEHflR4deRCRa30uze6C7uM+Xd1lVqaRIuqNaEKulI5OMkDDQUrL 5yrdVmw0ruGU/33jK+rfeayrVds3eL4YQdc/M=
Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=n5w7GO9at5b17B0RTEYVDp1wWt5cb43nOILOEO/gGCJd7e1aiAlARp9Tbi4R9NzvdU QXrAMVe7FN3S2kMEsUp+A+g4zUdhF16XFGpNuDR2rKxztHdWaFvCCom/53KqYdiaDxze ypZ99nh5E1JPddq0ji0sr7GHKq38WZ/Fy5UNE=
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20091210122404.GO16033@xxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <e4b224300912090332j211b0b38t8f32a5e82233586c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <de76405a0912090409pb055363m559eb743700f7168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D0180DAB7@trantor> <4B20D2EC.8060605@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20091210122404.GO16033@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just want to balloon the memory of Windows guest,  it seems that neither GPLpv driver nor  Citrix/XCP Windows PV drivers  includs it.
 
who ever has tried it?
 
 
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:52:28AM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> James Harper wrote:
> >>To balloon a Windows guest, you need a balloon driver installed in
> >>Windows.  You can find them here:
> >> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv
> >>
> >
> >The code to support ballooning isn't really working yet. It's on my list
> >of things to do but hasn't been high priority at this point.
> >
> In that case, you might look at the binary Citrix drivers provided along
> with the Xen Cloud Edition.  I believe the installer can be found on the
> main iso available on the xen.org website.  However, I've never
> installed them, and there may be some extra steps required to get them
> working.
>

Here's the patch to Xen that enables Citrix/XCP Windows PV drivers to
work on "normal" Xen:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/msg00932.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg?rev/be9b8be3c648

If you don't want to patch your Xen, check out these emails:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/msg00147.html
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/msg00201.html

(For the manual Xenstore change, and the Windows registry change).

-- Pasi




--
Best regards,
Niu Yan

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel