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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] to fix xm list memory reporting

To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, "McAfee, Tommie M" <Tommie.McAfee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] to fix xm list memory reporting
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:58:12 +0100
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On 11/10/06 10:34 pm, "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> However, this patch concerns me in another way.  You're relying on the
> guest to report how much memory it has?  What prevents a guest from
> lying and claiming it has less memory than it really does?  Forget about
> lying, what about buggy guests?
> 
> Isn't this info available from the hypervisor?

Yes, from the getdomaininfo domctl.

 -- Keir



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