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Re: [Xen-users] Xen swap space

from [Mark Williamson]

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Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] Xen swap space
From:	Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:45:48 +0100
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> I was just wondering how Xen takes care of swap space.

Domains are treated as independent machines in this respect - it's up to them 
to do swapping themselves.

> > Is there an option  
> in the configuration file, to specify the logical drive to use as swap, and
> what if swap is not specified.

Just export a VBD to the domain that it can use for swap, then configure the 
domain's fstab to use, just as you would on a real machine.

If swap's not specified then the domain will just use its physical RAM 
allocation but may be more vulnerable to out-of-memory conditions.

Cheers,
Mark

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