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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ioemu: don't use magic number 0xff00000.

To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ioemu: don't use magic number 0xff00000.
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:53:02 +0000
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On 15/01/2009 12:44, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ah, so Stefano's patch actually got applied??  I thought Keir preferred
> to stay with allocating video memory from hvmloader.
> 
> Note that I do not really care about which way we go, what's important
> to keep in mind is that if we revert to qemu populating the video
> memory, stubdom-based qemu can _not_ work with the default Xen
> parameters, because of memory ballooning.

I backpedalled and now think we should fix the auto-ballooner. Or disable it
if we enable stub domains by default.

 -- Keir



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