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Re: [Xen-devel] xl list vs xm list: backwards compatibility vs forward p

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xl list vs xm list: backwards compatibility vs forward progress?
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:32 +0100
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Dan Magenheimer writes ("[Xen-devel] xl list vs xm list: backwards 
compatibility vs forward progress?"):
> I was pleased to find out that "xl list" shows the
> current amount of physical memory in use by a domain
> rather than the start amount.  This is very useful
> for monitoring self-ballooning!  I like it!
> 
> But... it is not backwards compatible with "xm list".

Isn't it ?

I'm pretty sure I've written a program which does "xm mem-set" and
then polls the output from "xm list" to wait for the target domain to
balloon down.

Ian.

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