Re: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>]

Stefan de Konink, le Mon 28 Jul 2008 17:22:39 +0200, a écrit :
> > This is moving in almost the opposite
> > direction to Xen upstream is moving: we are moving qemu-dm into its
> > own tiny domain, so that the qemu code doesn't need to run as a
> > process in dom0; this has important security and scalability
> > advantages.
> 
> I think your userbase prefers the way Red Hat goes. If you do a reality
> check on the current Python implementation and its memory usage, it is so
> far from an ESX equivalent that I put my money on any Qemu userspace
> version.
> 
> So if you say this new domain will not take at least 128MB extra memory,
> that could be interesting.

Err...  Currently the default allocated memory is 32MB because there are
still some bloats, but there is no reason why qemu-dm in its own domain
should take much more than qemu-dm in dom0.  Currently it should be able
to fit within 16MB.

Samuel