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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PoD issue

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:19:15AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Keith Coleman <list.keith@xxxxxxxxxxx> 19.02.10 01:03 >>>
> >On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:12 PM, George Dunlap
> ><George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Yeah, the OSS tree doesn't get the kind of regression testing it
> >> really needs at the moment.  I was using the OSS balloon drivers when
> >> I implemented and submitted the PoD code last year.  I didn't have any
> >> trouble then, and I was definitely using up all of the memory.  But I
> >> haven't done any testing on OSS since then, basically.
> >>
> >
> >Is it expected that booting HVM guests with maxmem > memory is
> >unstable? In testing 3.4.3-rc2 (kernel 2.6.18 c/s 993) I can easily
> >crash the guest and occasionally the entire server.
> 
> Crashing the guest is expected if the guest doesn't have a fixed
> balloon driver (i.e. the mentioned c/s would need to be in the
> sources the pv drivers for the guest were built from).
> 
> Crashing the host is certainly unacceptable - please provide logs
> thereof.
> 

Was this resolved? Someone was complaining recently that maxmem != memory
crashes his Xen host..

-- Pasi


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