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RE: [Xen-devel] Re: GSoC 2010 - Migration from memory ballooning tomemor

To: "Daniel Kiper" <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Re: GSoC 2010 - Migration from memory ballooning tomemory hotplug in Xen
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:17:57 +1000
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> 
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 08:58:01AM +1000, James Harper wrote:
> > > While you can do that the value is not very large because you
> > > could just start the guests with more memory, but ballooned in
> > > the first place (so that they don't actually use it)
> >
> > I think hotplug is a better method for adding memory for Windows.
> 
> Maybe in the future I write somthing for Windows...
> 

For Windows, I believe you would need to emulate actual hotplug of
memory like a physical machine, using ACPI. It's only supported on
Enterprise versions of Windows too.

James

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