Re: [Xen-devel] 3.0.5-rc3: Creating HVM guest fails with: Cannot

To:	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] 3.0.5-rc3: Creating HVM guest fails with: Cannot allocate memory
From:	Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:56:48 +0100
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On 27/4/07 14:26, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It seems to occurr with any HVM guest I try to create, unless there was
> already
> some free mem (from starting & stopping a previous dom). I'm testing with this
> very simple hack which seems to make it work - just ensure the balloon driver
> frees a 10 MB chunk right at the start. Hardcoding is fine because when we
> later get to the _initDomain() method we'll definitely be freeing up much
> more than 10 MB for the HVM guests's actual mem requirements.

We do most testing with a sensible 'dom0_mem=' so we wouldn't see this.

The hack looks fine.

 -- Keir


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