Re: [Xen-devel] Size limit on extra argument to xm create

[Mick Jordan <Mick.Jordan@xxxxxxx>]

On 09/ 9/09 08:49 PM, Mick Jordan wrote:
> Experimentally there seems to be a 1024 byte limit on the size of the 
> extra parameter to xm create (shades of csh!).
> Before I dig in to the code, I'm thought I'd check if this a limit in 
> xm or a more fundamental limit in the Xen guest interface. I can 
> imagine a hard limit of a page in the latter case, but that would be a 
> lot better than 1024.
I was too hasty in attributing this to problems with shell variable 
length limits. There does seem to be a Xen limit of 1024 characters for 
the "extra" argument to "xm create", as shown below. The cmd_line value 
passed to the guest is truncated at 1024. So  my question above holds.
# xm create -c xmconfigs/domain_config_generic 
extra="-XX:+UseVirtualMemory -cp /guestvm/image/GuestVM/bin 
test.java.lang.ArgsTest really_quite_a_long_argument_1 
really_quite_a_long_argument_2 really_quite_a_long_argument_3 
really_quite_a_long_argument_4 really_quite_a_long_argument_5 
really_quite_a_long_argument_6 really_quite_a_long_argument_7 
really_quite_a_long_argument_8 really_quite_a_long_argument_9 
really_quite_a_long_argument_10 really_quite_a_long_argument_11 
really_quite_a_long_argument_12 really_quite_a_long_argument_13 
really_quite_a_long_argument_14 really_quite_a_long_argument_15 
really_quite_a_long_argument_16 really_quite_a_long_argument_17 
really_quite_a_long_argument_18 really_quite_a_long_argument_19 
really_quite_a_long_argument_20 really_quite_a_long_argument_21 
really_quite_a_long_argument_22 really_quite_a_long_argument_23 
really_quite_a_long_argument_24 really_quite_a_long_argument_25 
really_quite_a_long_argument_26 really_quite_a_long_argument_27 
really_quite_a_long_argument_28 really_quite_a_long_argument_29 
really_quite_a_long_argument_30 really_quite_a_long_argument_40 
really_quite_a_long_argument_41 really_quite_a_long_argument_42 
really_quite_a_long_argument_43 really_quite_a_long_argument_44 
really_quite_a_long_argument_45 really_quite_a_long_argument_46 
really_quite_a_long_argument_47 really_quite_a_long_argument_48 
really_quite_a_long_argument_49 really_quite_a_long_argument_50 
really_quite_a_long_argument_51 really_quite_a_long_argument_52 
really_quite_a_long_argument_53 really_quite_a_long_argument_54 
really_quite_a_long_argument_55 really_quite_a_long_argument_56 
really_quite_a_long_argument_57 really_quite_a_long_argument_58 
really_quite_a_long_argument_59 really_quite_a_long_argument_60"
Using config file "./xmconfigs/domain_config_generic".
Started domain GuestVM-mjj
argc 35
 0 GuestVM-mjj
 1 -XX:+UseVirtualMemory
 2 -cp
 3 /guestvm/image/GuestVM/bin
 4 test.java.lang.ArgsTest
 5 really_quite_a_long_argument_1
 6 really_quite_a_long_argument_2
 7 really_quite_a_long_argument_3
 8 really_quite_a_long_argument_4
 9 really_quite_a_long_argument_5
 10 really_quite_a_long_argument_6
 11 really_quite_a_long_argument_7
 12 really_quite_a_long_argument_8
 13 really_quite_a_long_argument_9
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 34 really_quite_a_long_argumen
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