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Re: [Xen-users] Debian Etch ignores the maxmem-option

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Debian Etch ignores the maxmem-option
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:23:50 +0100
Cc: ding280 <ding280@xxxxxx>
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You need to configure the guest so that it knows what to do with the memory.

If you stick "mem=500M" onto the domain's kernel command line (e.g. add it 
into the extra= parameter) then this will inform the guest that it may have 
up to 500M at some point in future.  Otherwise it isn't able to size its 
internal data structures correctly, and so it can't expand when you ask it 
to.

Hope this fixes the problem!

Cheers,
Mark

On Monday 20 August 2007, ding280 wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm using Debian Etch with its xen-packages. I want to use a dynamic ram
> configuration for my DomU's.
> I added these lines to my config-files:
>
> memory = "200"
> maxmem = "500"
> extra = "mem=500M"
>
> But the domU's ram will not catch more than 200 MB ram. xm info
> shows me enough free ram.
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
>
>
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