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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: uclibc-dom0/xen 2.0.5 trivia
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:26:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <423EE7BA.2040506@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423E737B.4090105@diku.dk>

Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:

> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> > libxc builds quite fine against uClibc as does vm-tools.  I use it
> > busybox imagine (with uClibc) quite frequently for testing and 
> development.
>
> Did you try how small you could make dom0 by any chance?

root@codemonkey.ws rh# df
/xen/rockhopper.img       3963      1666      2093  45% /xen/rh

So a bit over 1.5MB.  I must admit, while the prospect of a super-small 
dom0 is quite appealing, using a ramdisk just hasn't proved to be all 
that useful.

The thing that always comes back to bite me too is that I cannot get X 
to start in a domU.  If I could get that to work it might be practical.

Obviously, the key to getting things to build so small is to use busybox 
and uClibc but another important tip is to be very careful about what 
goes in /dev.  /dev can eat a ton of space in certain file systems.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori

> Jacob
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-21 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-21  3:36 uclibc-dom0/xen 2.0.5 trivia Yvette
2005-03-21  4:03 ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
2005-03-21  5:35   ` Anthony Liguori
2005-03-21  6:02     ` Yvette
2005-03-21  7:10     ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
2005-03-21 15:26       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2005-03-21 20:15         ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
2005-03-21 20:24           ` Anthony Liguori

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