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RE: [Xen-devel] PoD in other (not GPLPV) drivers

To: "George Dunlap" <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] PoD in other (not GPLPV) drivers
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:20:25 +1100
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> 
> We tested a wide range of memory parameters for the Citrix PV drivers
> on XenServer.  I just asked the guy in charge of that, and he said
> that they were able to reliably boot w2k8x32 with memory=128MiB and
> maxmem=1024MiB.
> 
> I know we had to do make some changes to move the balloon driver
> allocation further back in the boot process to make that happen; but
> I'm not familiar with the details.  Paul would be the person to ask
> about that.
> 

Is there a way for DomU to get an interrupt when an unpopulated page is
hit when the DomU has gone past its initial limit? That would allow me
to at least write a message to the log and crash usefully if I can't do
anything else about it.

James

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