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[Xen-devel] RE: PoD with Windows Balloon

To: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chu Rui <ruichu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: PoD with Windows Balloon
From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:25:21 +0000
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The balloon driver should read memory/static-max and memory/target from 
xenstore. The balloon size should be the former minus the latter.

  Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Dunlap
> Sent: 30 November 2010 11:15
> To: Chu Rui
> Cc: Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; James Harper; Paul Durrant
> Subject: Re: PoD with Windows Balloon
> 
> It looks like possibly the GPLPV baloon driver is using the wrong
> value
> to calculate how much memory it's starting with (and thus how big it
> needs to make the balloon)?
> 
> The Citrix Windows PV drivers (which you can get free-as-in-beer
> from
> the XCP distribution) work properly with PoD on open-source last
> time I
> checked (probably a month ago).
> 
>   -George
> 
> On 30/11/10 11:05, Chu Rui wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have tried PoD in Windows/HVM. My VMM is XEN 4.0.0, Domain0 is
> RHEL
> > 5.4/kernel 2.6.31, and DomainU is Windows 2003.
> > It does not work well as in Linux/HVM. The primary problem looks
> in the
> > balloon driver, which was obtained from
> > http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/win-pvdrivers.hg
> > In my configuration, memory=512M, and maxmem=2G. After booted, I
> want to
> > inflate the balloon with the target=390M, but the balloon driver
> does
> > not work correctly.
> > It becomes clear after I get the debug messges from the balloon
> driver
> > as this:
> > 00000000 0.00000000 XenPCI --> XenPci_BalloonHandler
> > 00000001 0.00153629 XenPCI     target memory value = 390 (400000)
> > 00000002 0.00619057 XenPCI <-- XenPci_BalloonHandler
> > 00000003 0.00619715 XenPCI     Got balloon event, current = 512,
> target
> > = 390
> > 00000004 0.00858740 XenPCI     Trying to give 122 MB to Xen
> > 00000005 0.00968578 XenPCI     Calling
> > HYPERVISOR_memory_op(XENMEM_decrease_reservation) - pfn_count =
> 256
> > 00000006 0.02019652 XenPCI     decreased 256 pages
> > ......
> > Obviously, the balloon driver thinks that the system has(target)
> only
> > 512M memory when booted, thus the balloon size was 122MB, not 2G-
> 390M.
> > Is it a bug of the Windows balloon driver? Does it work if I
> simply
> > modify the source code to make the initial target value as 2G?
> > Thanks.


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