Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PoD issue

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Keith Coleman <list.keith@xxxxxxxxxxx> 19.02.10 01:03 >>>
>On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:12 PM, George Dunlap
><George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yeah, the OSS tree doesn't get the kind of regression testing it
>> really needs at the moment.  I was using the OSS balloon drivers when
>> I implemented and submitted the PoD code last year.  I didn't have any
>> trouble then, and I was definitely using up all of the memory.  But I
>> haven't done any testing on OSS since then, basically.
>>
>
>Is it expected that booting HVM guests with maxmem > memory is
>unstable? In testing 3.4.3-rc2 (kernel 2.6.18 c/s 993) I can easily
>crash the guest and occasionally the entire server.

Crashing the guest is expected if the guest doesn't have a fixed
balloon driver (i.e. the mentioned c/s would need to be in the
sources the pv drivers for the guest were built from).

Crashing the host is certainly unacceptable - please provide logs
thereof.

Jan


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