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Re: [Xen-devel] "out of memory" error when starting Domain 0

To: "Ross C Mcilroy" <mcilrorc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] "out of memory" error when starting Domain 0
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:42:54 +0000
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> The grub entry for Xen is:
> 
>   title Xen 2.0 / XenLinux 2.6.9 (original)
>     kernel (hd0,2)/boot/xen.gz dom0mem=131072
>     module (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 root=/dev/hda3 console=tty0
> 
> 
> I would be very greatful for any help.

It should be dom0_mem=131072, not dom0mem=131072! Because of this typo
Xen is using the default DOM0 size of 16MB which is too small to boot
most standard distro installations.

 -- Keir


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