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[Xen-devel] Xen - Guest memory allocation

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Xen - Guest memory allocation
From: dinesh chandrasekaran <dinesh_chan8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 00:27:26 +0530
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YES.

        But if I want to add memory of type E820_USABLE to xen memory map during boot up (as per xen/e820.c) where the memory to be added lies behind a PCI device?

For ex,
If a PCI device reports it has 1GB of memory behind it.
And XEN has identified th RAM memory to be 4GB.

How can the PCI - 1GB can be added as usable memory to XEN's memory pool to get a cumulative size of 5GB;
 
thanks,
Dinesh C

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Weiming wrote:

AFAIK, In para virtualization, when guest boots, it reads the memory layout from a special page (start info page) instead of from bios.
If your guest os is a PV Linux, you can check its source code (e.g. start_kernel(), etc.)

Thanks,
Weiming

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:00 PM, dinesh chandrasekaran <dinesh_chan8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:




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