Re: [Xen-devel] Xen - Guest memory allocation

To:	"dinesh chandrasekaran" <dinesh_chan8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] Xen - Guest memory allocation
From:	weiming <zephyr.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:38:15 -0400
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AFAIK, In para virtualization, when guest boots, it reads the memory layout from a special page (start info page) instead of from bios.
If your guest os is a PV Linux, you can check its source code (e.g. start_kernel(), etc.)

Thanks,
Weiming

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:00 PM, dinesh chandrasekaran <dinesh_chan8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Looking into the xen code for days, I still could not figure where the following occurs,

How does xen allocates memory to the DomU guests?

Where in the code does xen provides the start and end address map for each guest that is created?

Ovreall, How does xen creates a memory pool and performs allocation?

Any help in this regard would be appreciated,
Thank you in advance,
Dinesh C

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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen - Guest memory allocation